Berlin Alexanderplatz: Part I

As it is, "The Punishment Begins" could stand as an excellent portrait of the first days in the life of a newly released prisoner, his attempt to stand up in its mind, to become a normal person again. Franz makes an oath to become honest, to make a life, finds a girl, and cut ties with its trouble past. At the end of this chapter Fassbinder trick me into despair, only to give Franz and the viewer a new glimpse of hope. I started watching this film with doubts, now I'm more hooked, as I was watching a similar monster film: Egdar Reitz's "Heimat".