Bertolt Brecht Movies

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...

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

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

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 Mysteries of a Hairdresser’s Shop describes the absurd goings-on of a by no means ordinary hair salon, where men with great beards wait in...

A hard-hitting new production of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus at the Teatro...

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

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

After the first world war Andreas returns to Berlin to find it in chaos after the fall of the empire. The main battle is between the Spartacists and...

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

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...

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

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

An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run...

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