Bertolt Brecht Movies

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

A televised play based on the work of Bertolt Brecht.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Based on a novella by Bertolt Brecht.

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...

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

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...

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...