Bertolt Brecht Movie Trailers
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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Trailer (1979)
27 November 1979
John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to make this Kurt Weill–Bertolt Brecht masterpiece a riveting evening of music theater.
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Trailer (2011)
15 November 2011
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 de Madrid.
La vie de Galilée Trailer (1992)
24 March 1992
Mise-en-scène, at the Comédie-Française, of La Vie de Galilée by Bertolt Brecht. This is the last staging by Antoine Vitez.
Alter Bahnhof Video Walk Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
The Alter Bahnhof Video Walk was designed for the old train station in Kassel, Germany as part of dOCUMENTA (13).
The Career of Arturo Ui Trailer (1996)
07 June 1996
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 comedy.
The 3 Penny Opera Trailer (1931)
18 February 1931
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Trailer (2007)
18 December 2007
- Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 & 4 March 2007. Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and love is always on sale.
The Threepenny Opera Trailer (1963)
28 February 1963
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath.
Antigone Trailer (1992)
02 September 1992
A fearless Antigone, refusing to allow the dishonored body of her murdered brother Polynices to be devoured by vultures and dogs, defies the Thebian tyrant Creon by burying him.
Mahagonny Trailer (1974)
09 February 1974
The city of Mahagonny, founded by three criminals, becomes a place for people looking for their luck or money.
Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten Trailer (1952)
02 January 1952
Basing his work on documentary material, Andrew Thorndike tells the life story of Wilhelm Pieck: from young worker to fighter for the German working class, and from enemy of national-socialism to the first president of the German Democratic Republic.
Galileo Trailer (1975)
27 January 1975
Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology and discovers irrefutable proof of the heretical notion that the earth is not the center of the universe.
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Trailer (1972)
07 November 1972
The rise to underworld eminence of the notorious Chicago gangster Artuto Ui - who bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler.
Baal Trailer (1982)
02 February 1982
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.
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti Trailer (1960)
20 October 1960
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 premiered five years later.
Baal Trailer (1970)
07 January 1970
An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Baal Trailer (2004)
11 May 2004
Baal, a young artist whom society regards as a genius, does not want to be monopolized by the culture and business.
Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment Trailer (2009)
31 October 2009
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 - each writer referencing Rome but really condemning injustice in his own era.
History Lessons Trailer (1972)
10 September 1972
Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political manipulation by ancient Roman society led to Caesar’s dictatorship.
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Trailer (2019)
06 July 2019
Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism and ty
Hangmen Also Die! Trailer (1943)
01 April 1943
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process.
No. 18: Mahagonny Trailer (1980)
13 September 1980
Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1929) for over ten years and considered it his magnum opus.
Song of the Rivers Trailer (1954)
17 September 1954
An allegorical documentary about the workers of the world, whose common destinies and hopes for peace are symbolically united by the rivers that run through their respective lands.
Brecht and Co Trailer (1979)
10 August 1979
Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.
Brecht und das Berliner Ensemble Trailer (2019)
09 February 2019
Documentary about Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble.
The Life of Galileo Trailer (1964)
29 April 1964
BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.
Im Dickicht der Städte Trailer (1968)
21 December 1968
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 Trailer (1931)
08 June 1931
The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.
Carola Neher - Todesursache unbekannt Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
"Cause of Death Unknown" - Carola Neher (1900-1942) actress, singer and feminist. Brecht wrote the role Polly Peachum for her.
I Was, I Am, I Will Be Trailer (1974)
10 September 1974
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 concentration camps in the north of the country - Chacabuco and Pisagua - leaving with filmed sequences and sound recordings.
The Murderers Are Coming Trailer (1942)
01 January 1942
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 poverty, violence, fear and pretence.
The Seduction of Angels Trailer (2000)
01 July 2000
A young man cruises through the nightly city. He meets people, silhouettes, strange and scary. They all end up in a dim night club.
The Good Man from Szechuan Trailer (2020)
22 April 2020
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 large gift of money.
Låt er inte förföras Trailer (1978)
21 September 1978
"Don't Be Seduced" - Gothenburg's Brecht-ensemble performs songs and texts of Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler.
Der springende Punkt Trailer (1987)
17 July 1987
Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of modern nuclear missiles.
The Threepenny Opera Trailer (2000)
21 December 2000
Macheath (Mack the Knife), notorious bandit and womanizer, runs afoul of Jonathan Peachum when he marries Peachum's daughter Polly in a ceremony of doubtful legality.
Regeln och undantaget Trailer (1968)
31 March 1968
A television drama about a trial against a merchant who killed one of his employees.
Dificuldade de Governar Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
Animation of Bertolt Brecht's namesake poem recited by Mario Viegas
Marianne Trailer (2013)
04 July 2013
On the verge of professional breakthrough, a young Bertolt Brecht reflects on relationships.
National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera Trailer (2016)
22 September 2016
As London's East End scrubs up for the coronation, Mr and Mrs Peachum gear up for a bumper day in the beggary business.
Mack the Knife Trailer (1989)
01 November 1989
In 19th century London, a young girl falls for a womanizing criminal and they decide to wed. Her family strongly disapproves so her father, 'the king of thieves', gets the gangster arrested.
Trummor i natten Trailer (1972)
07 May 1972
After the first world war Andreas returns to Berlin to find it in chaos after the fall of the empire.
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? Trailer (1932)
14 May 1932
Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures.
Leben des Galilei Trailer (1947)
19 October 1947
Galileo, an eminent professor and scientist in the 17th century Venetian Republic, is short of money.
Brecht - Die Kunst zu leben Trailer (2006)
06 July 2006
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 Berlin in 1956, is one of the most important playwrights of the 20th century.