Bertolt Brecht Movies

A young man cruises through the nightly city. He meets people, silhouettes, strange and scary. They all end up in a dim night club.

The city of Mahagonny, founded by three criminals, becomes a place for people looking for their luck or money. One among them is the lumberjack Jim...

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

On the verge of professional breakthrough, a young Bertolt Brecht reflects on relationships.

Documentary about Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble.

In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Junta’s Chancellery, entered into two large...

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

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

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

Co-director Cornelia Geiser sits by a window on an easy chair reading aloud a few verses by Corneille, then a somewhat longer excerpt from Brecht -...

Animation of Bertolt Brecht's namesake poem recited by Mario Viegas

A television drama about a trial against a merchant who killed one of his employees.

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...

A flat tire shocks a passenger. Stopped at the roadside, she thinks about her life while the driver changes the tire, unsure if this is the right...