Berlin Alexanderplatz

How is One to Live if One Doesn’t Want to Die?

Season 1    Episode 2
October 13, 1980    60m    Not Rated
Franz employs himself by hocking tie holders on the street but has trouble making enough money. He is talked into selling the fascist newspaper Völkischer Beobachter and wearing a swastika armband. At Max’s bar, Franz is confronted by an old acquaintance named Dreske. Dreske and his friends sing “The Internationale” to provoke Franz. They nearly come to blows before Franz collapses in a fit.

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Cast of How is One to Live if One Doesn’t Want to Die?
  • Günter LamprechtFranz Biberkopf
  • Hanna SchygullaEva
  • Barbara SukowaMieze
  • Gottfried JohnReinhold Hoffmann
  • Ivan DesnyPums
  • Barbara ValentinIda
  • Brigitte MiraFrau Bast
  • Günther KaufmannTheo
  • Vitus ZeplichalRudi
  • Claus HolmWirt
  • Volker SpenglerBruno
  • Elisabeth TrissenaarLina
  • Lilo PempeitFrau Pums
  • Annemarie DüringerCilly
  • Klaus HöhneInvalide
  • Rolf ZacherKrause
  • Werner AsamFritz
  • Jürgen DraegerWürstchenverkäufer

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