Bertolt Brecht Movies

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...

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

Set during the Thirty Years' War between 1624 and 1636, film tells the story of the sutler Anna Fierling, known as Mother Courage, who tries to make...

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

Documentary about Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble.

- 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...

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna...

A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian...

Moscow in the 1920s. A film about the pogroms in southern Russia is being made in a studio. The name of the notorious tsarist governor Muratov, also...

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

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...

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...

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 -...

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...

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...

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

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

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