Bertolt Brecht Movies

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally...

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...

During World War II, Şvayk, a seemingly ordinary, hapless dog-seller, finds himself entangled with the Nazi regime.

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.

Inspired by the work of Bertolt Brecht and filmed in Porto's former industrial slaughterhouse, A Santa Joana dos Matadouros is a meta-cinematic essay...

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

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

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

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

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

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

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...

He wanted to revolutionize theater practice and at the same time social awareness: Today Brecht, who was born in Augsburg in 1898 and died in East...

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

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