Bertolt Brecht Filmes

A marginal version of Brecht’s piece, “Baal”.

Directed by Judhajit Sarkar, it is a dark satire on the city’s notorious underbelly of crime and the nexuses which exist between a...

Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political...

Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt...

The rise to underworld eminence of the notorious Chicago gangster Artuto Ui - who bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler.

BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.

- Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 & 4 March 2007. Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown...

Galileo, an eminent professor and scientist in the 17th century Venetian Republic, is short of money. A prospective student tells him about a novel...

Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of...

When the gods appear in disguise the only person who shows them hospitality is the young girl Shen Te and for this she is awarded by them. After a...

"Cause of Death Unknown" - Carola Neher (1900-1942) actress, singer and feminist. Brecht wrote the role Polly Peachum for her. She practiced boxing...

A television staging of the 1941 Brecht play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

Here meet personal memory, working knowledge, research interests and anecdotes together to vivid memory about the most important German dramatist of...

Depicts the consumerism of the mythical city of Mahagonny, conveying all its ripe decadence. A Hollywood Babylon full of pyramidal towers, carved...

Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.