Bertolt Brecht Movies

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

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.

Madame Bertini, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived a sheltered life in squalour. She determines to venture into the modern world and have...

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

During the Thirty Years' War, the camp-follower Anna Fierling, called "Mother Courage", travels the length and breadth of Europe with her covered...

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

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...

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

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

The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.

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

Based on a short story by Bertolt Brecht.

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

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...

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...

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

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