Special Features
High-Definition digital restoration by the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation and Bavaria Media, supervised and approved by Director of Photography Xaver Schwarzenberger, with DTS-HD Master Audio Soundtrack; Two documentaries by Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation president Juliane Lorenz: one from 2007 featuring interviews with the cast and crew, the other from 2006 on the restoration; Hans-Dieter Hartl's 1980 documentary NOtes on the Making-Of "Berlin Alexanderplatz" ; Phi Jutzi's 1931 feature-length film of Alfred Döblins novel, from a screenplay cowritten by Döblin himself; Interview from 2007 with Peter Jelavich, author of "Berlin Alexanderplatz": Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture; Plus: A book featuring an essay by filmmaker Tom Tykwer, reflections on the novel by Fassbinder and author Thomas Steinfeld, and an interview with Schwarzenberger