28/10/2002 - Marathon first screening of Berlin Alexanderplatz to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the German director's death

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death of German film director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the 43rd International Thessaloniki Film Festival, in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, will, for the very first time, screen a TV series entitled Berlin Alexanderplatz, that was comissioned in 1980 by the then West German television. The series was first aired in Greece by national broadcaster, ET-1 in 1983.
Berlin Alexanderplatz lasts 16 hours and has long been considered one of the rare cases of a successful creative synergy between cinema and television. The 13-part series - plus epilogue - epitomize the vision, style and range that were characteristic of Fassbinder’s finest work.
The series is scheduled to be seen over three five-hour- late-night sessions (starting at 1 a.m.) scheduled for the last three days of the festival - 15-17 November. There will be two scheduled intervals per session, and breakfast will be served after each screening. The series will end with the Epilogue.
In addition, true Fassbinder fans will rejoice in the knowledge that the full 16-hour film will be screened on Monday 18 November at the Pavlos Zannas Cinema.

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