Season 1 (1980)

Back to season list
The Punishment Begins
0.0

October 12, 1980 • 1h

In 1928 Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released after serving four years in Tegel prison for killing his girlfriend Ida. After settlin...Read more

How is One to Live if One Doesn’t Want to Die?
0.0

October 13, 1980 • 1h

Franz employs himself by hocking tie holders on the street but has trouble making enough money. He is talked into selling the fasc...Read more

A Hammer Blow to the Head Can Injure the Soul
0.0

October 20, 1980 • 1h

Lina is troubled by the shady nature of the jobs Franz is getting and has him meet a family friend, Otto Lüders, who has Franz joi...Read more

A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence
0.0

October 27, 1980 • 1h

Franz goes on an alcohol binge as a former medical orderly looks over him. He runs into Meck on the street one day. Meck had been ...Read more

A Reaper with the Power of Our Lord
0.0

November 3, 1980 • 1h

Franz becomes re-acquainted with Eva, for whom he used to be a pimp and who feels a deep affection for him. At Max’s, Meck introdu...Read more

Love Has Its Price
0.0

November 10, 1980 • 1h

Reinhold is desperate to get rid of his current woman, Trude, but Franz won’t take her and wants to stick with Cilly. Franz gets s...Read more

Remember—An Oath can be Amputated
0.0

November 17, 1980 • 1h

Franz has survived the car accident, but his right arm has been amputated. He recuperates for a time with Eva and Eva’s lover Herb...Read more

The Sun Warms the Skin, but Burns it Sometimes Too
0.0

November 24, 1980 • 1h

Franz gets involved in an illegal enterprise with Willy, whom he met at a cabaret. Eva and Herbert drop by to see Franz and bring ...Read more

About the Eternities Between the Many and the Few
0.0

December 1, 1980 • 1h

Eva explain to Franz that Mieze just wants to work to support him as Franz cannot do so due to his missing arm. He reconciles with...Read more

Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even in Walls
0.0

December 8, 1980 • 1h

As Mieze cannot have children, Eva tells her she will have a child with Franz that Mieze can then raise. Mieze is delighted. Eva a...Read more

Knowledge is Power and the Early Bird Catches the Worm
0.0

December 15, 1980 • 1h

Franz goes to Reinhold and tells him he wants to get involved with Pums again. Reinhold still has his suspicions but Franz is allo...Read more

The Serpent in the Soul of the Serpent
0.0

December 22, 1980 • 1h

Franz introduces Mieze to Meck. Reinhold blackmails Meck to set up a meeting for him with Mieze. Meck takes Mieze on a drive to Fr...Read more

The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of the Secret
0.0

December 29, 1980 • 1h

Franz tells Eva that Mieze has left him. Eva reassures him, though she is a bit concerned herself. A robbery pulled off by Pums’s ...Read more

My Dream of the Dream of Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Döblin, An Epilogue
0.0

December 29, 1980 • 1h

In a fantasy sequence, Franz walks along a street of the dead with two angels. He finds Mieze, but she disappears from his arms. R...Read more