Bertolt Brecht Movies

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

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

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

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...

John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to...

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

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 -...

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...

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

A small town in Western Germany is the last stop for 26,000 pigs per day and a brief home for masses of Eastern European temporary workers. The...

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

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

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

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...

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