Bertolt Brecht Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Dammbeck made this film – a reference to the myth of Icarus and a metaphor for failure, hope, and human exploration – at the invitation...

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...

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

Documentary about Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble.

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