Bertolt Brecht Movies

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

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 Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to...

Based on a short story by Bertolt Brecht.

Based on the satirical anti-war comedy of the same name by B. Brecht.

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

Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht.

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

An inexplicable showdown between two men and the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city.

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...

In the search for a single good person in the province of Sezuan, three gods finally find only poor street girl Shen Te, whom they reward with a...

When the powerful of this world give a small scoundrel the opportunity to become a big scoundrel - how many opportunities there are for a funny...

Mise-en-scène, at the Comédie-Française, of La Vie de Galilée by Bertolt Brecht. This is the last staging by Antoine...