Bertolt Brecht

Em Londres, na virada do século XIX para XX, Mackie, um cafetão e cafajeste conhecido como “A Navalha”, se casa com Polly, a filha de um empresário...

18 de fev. de 1931

27 de jan. de 1975

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figure...

14 de mai. de 1932

Uma Antígona destemida, recusando-se a permitir que o corpo de seu irmão assassinado Polinices seja devorado por abutres e cães, desafia o tirano C...

02 de set. de 1992

Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

07 de jan. de 1970

As London's East End scrubs up for the coronation, Mr and Mrs Peachum gear up for a bumper day in the beggary business. Keeping tight control of th...

22 de set. de 2016

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

10 de fev. de 1961

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...

24 de mar. de 1965

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

08 de jun. de 1931

Baal is an amoral poetic genius who, after a life of debauchery, betrayal and violence, is about to cut his ties to the world and meet his doom. A ...

02 de fev. de 1982

Galileo, an eminent professor and scientist in the 17th century Venetian Republic, is short of money. A prospective student tells him about a novel...

19 de out. de 1947

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

04 de jul. de 2013

Baal, a young artist whom society regards as a genius, does not want to be monopolized by the culture and business.

11 de mai. de 2004

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

07 de nov. de 1972

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 vain...

31 de dez. de 1923

- Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 & 4 March 2007. Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown...

18 de dez. de 2007

Durante a ocupação nazista da Checoslováquia, o cirurgião Dr. Franticek Svoboda, um patriota checo, assassina o brutal "Carrasco da Europa", o Reic...

15 de abr. de 1943

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest a...

28 de fev. de 1963

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 ...

18 de mar. de 2021

A tory based on classical theatre play "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht.

01 de jan. de 1985

Poeta e cantor, Baal recebe convite de Meck, madeireiro predador, para um jantar oferecido em sua homenagem. Sarcasticamente recusando propostas qu...

07 de out. de 2007

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

31 de dez. de 1931

Brecht's play Fear and Misery of the Third Reich consists of a series of playlets, portraying National Socialist Germany of the 1930s as a land of ...

01 de jan. de 1942

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

31 de mar. de 1968

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...

09 de fev. de 1974

10 de set. de 1972

"Don't Be Seduced" - Gothenburg's Brecht-ensemble performs songs and texts of Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler.

21 de set. de 1978

Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht.

23 de abr. de 1989

23 de dez. de 1979

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...

01 de jan. de 1973

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.

21 de dez. de 1968

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

01 de jul. de 2000

Durante o período nazista na Alemanha, Lene e Hans se casam. Com o começo da 2ª Grande Guerra, Hans tem que ir para o Front. Lene entra em trabalho...

26 de set. de 1980

10 de fev. de 1978

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 conce...

10 de set. de 1974

29 de nov. de 2024

Based on the Bertolt Brecht play, the movie follows the farmer Puntila, who when he's sober is a real pig but whenever he gets drunk becomes very g...

21 de dez. de 1979

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

01 de jan. de 1985

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

27 de nov. de 1979

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 Real...

15 de nov. de 2011

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

10 de ago. de 1979

Based on a short story by Bertolt Brecht.

10 de fev. de 1988

03 de mar. de 1975

11 de jan. de 1962

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 ...

01 de jan. de 1995

17 de set. de 1954

BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.

29 de abr. de 1964

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 ...

01 de jan. de 1973

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 p...

12 de jun. de 2024

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

01 de jan. de 1998

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

24 de mar. de 1992

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

20 de out. de 1960

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

01 de jan. de 1974

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

13 de set. de 1980

Macheath (Mack the Knife), notorious bandit and womanizer, runs afoul of Jonathan Peachum when he marries Peachum's daughter Polly in a ceremony of...

21 de dez. de 2000

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 -...

31 de out. de 2009

13 de jan. de 1974

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 wor...

21 de jan. de 2020

19 de mai. de 2018

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...

06 de jul. de 2019

Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German workin...

02 de jan. de 1952

15 de out. de 1957

09 de set. de 2002

12 de jan. de 1970

A television staging of the 1941 Brecht play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

19 de jun. de 1997