Berlin Alexanderplatz
Season 1, Episode 5: A Grim Reaper with powers from Almighty God
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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 introduces Franz to Pums, the ringleader of an illegal enterprise. He also meets Reinhold, one of Pums’s men. Reinhold is tired of his woman, Fränze, and wants Franz to take her off his hands. Franz has her come over and makes love with her. She returns to him after she can’t find Reinhold. Reinhold then employs the same plan with his current woman, Cilly, whom Franz accommodates after getting rid of Fränze.
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
The Punishment Begins
Episode 2
How is One to Live if One Doesn’t Want to Die?
Episode 3
A Hammer Blow to the Head Can Injure the Soul
Episode 4
A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence
Episode 5
A Grim Reaper with powers from Almighty God
Episode 6
Love Has Its Price
Episode 7
Remember—An Oath can be Amputated
Episode 8
The Sun Warms the Skin, but Burns it Sometimes Too
Episode 9
About the Eternities Between the Many and the Few
Episode 10
Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even in Walls
Episode 11
Knowledge is Power and the Early Bird Catches the Worm
Episode 12
The Serpent in the Soul of the Serpent
Episode 13
The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of the Secret
Episode 14
My Dream of the Dream of Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Döblin, An Epilogue