Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- ~60 min/episode
- Length
- 1 season · 14 episodes
- Status
- Ended · complete
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- German
- Country
- Germany
Why tonight?
- One season, and then it ends — a story with a last episode, not a habit.
- In German — subtitles on.
The story
In late 1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.
- berlin
- germany
- based on novel or book
- breaking the fourth wall
- period drama
- ex-con
- 1920s
- class struggle
- interwar period
- historical epic
- weimar republic
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Franz Buchrieser
- Barbara Valentin
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Günther Kaufmann
- Vitus Zeplichal
- Claus Holm
- Brigitte Mira
- Ivan Desny
- Roger Fritz
- Volker Spengler
- Fritz Schediwy
- Directed
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Created
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Written
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 48 ratings
- Network & studio
- Das Erste, Bavaria Film, WDR
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
