7-DVD Criterion Collection set. New hi-def digital transfer from the 2006 restoration by the Fassbinder Foundation and Bavaria Media, approved by director of photography Xaver Schwarzenberger . Includes Phil Jutzi's 1931, ninety-minute film of Alfred Doblin's novel, from a screenplay co-written by Doblin himself, two new documentaries by Fassbinder Foundation president Juliane Lorenz detailing the cast and crew and the restoration, Hans-Dieter Hartl's 1980 documentary Notes on the Making of Berlin Alexanderplatz, new video interview with Peter Jelavich, author of Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture, and new and improved English subtitle translation.