Bertolt Brecht Movies

This first film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play about class distinctions was made in 1955 in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios, but it was...

A tory based on classical theatre play "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht.

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

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

About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.

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

He wanted to revolutionize theater practice and at the same time social awareness: Today Brecht, who was born in Augsburg in 1898 and died in East...

Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very...

Baal, a young artist whom society regards as a genius, does not want to be monopolized by the culture and business.

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...

With the help of his assistant Anja, Ottocaro Weiss intends to put the plague on stage: circumstances beyond his control and a lack of fresh talent...

Based on a short story by Bertolt Brecht.

Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism and the inexorable industrialization of a society in...

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...

The Seven Deadly Sins tells the story of two sisters, Anna I and Anna II. The sisters set out from the banks of the Mississippi River in Louisiana to...

The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned child of the deposed former ruler.

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