Screenplay: Bertolt Brecht

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Brian Donlevy · Walter Brennan · Anna Lee · Gene Lockhart

Plot An apocryphal version of the assassination of the Nazi leader and Czech "protector" Reinhard Heydrich by a resistance fighter in World War II. The story follows the assassin as he...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Astrid Ofner · Ursula Ofner · Albert Hetterle · Stephan Wolf-Schönburg

Plot Based on a translate to german by Friedrich Hölderlin of texts by Sofokles and Bertold Brecht. Antigone, daughter to Oedipus, opposes tyrant of Thebes, Creon's edict that her brother Polynice's...

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Rudolf Forster · Carola Neher · Reinhold Schünzel · Fritz Rasp

Plot In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'.

Direction Helma Sanders-Brahms

Cast Eva Mattes · Ernst Jacobi · Elisabeth Stepanek · Angelika Thomas

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

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Gottfried Bold · Johann Unterpertinger · Henri Ludwigg · Carl Vaillant

Plot Based on the unfinished novel 'The Business Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar' by Bertolt Brecht. - Julius Caesar and various other people testify about the unfairness in the society of...

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Günther Peter Straschek · Danièle Huillet · Peter Nestler · Jean-Marie Straub

Plot Depicts the reading of a long letter by Schoenberg to Kandinsky in which he explains that, as a Jew, he cannot accept Kandinsky’s invitation to teach at the Bauhaus.

Direction René Allio

Cast Sylvie · Victor Lanoux · Etienne Bierry · Pascale de Boysson

Plot The Shameless Old Lady should have been a wry French satire of society's misconceptions about the elderly; alas, the film is defeated by its own preciousness. That irreplaceable Gallic character...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Topol · Edward Fox · John Gielgud · Tom Conti

Plot This bio-pic is about Galileo, the 17th century Italian who laid the foundations of modern science. Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of...

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Albert Préjean · Florelle · Gaston Modot · Margo Lion

Plot Bilingual version of the film "Die Dreigroschenoper", shooted simultaneously with its predecessor for the French market.

Direction Slatan Dudow

Cast Hertha Thiele · Ernst Busch · Martha Wolter · Adolf Fischer

Direction Erich Engel · Bertolt Brecht

Cast Karl Valentin · Blandine Ebinger · Erwin Faber · Liesl Karlstadt

Direction Volker Schlöndorff

Cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Sigi Graue · Margarethe von Trotta · Günther Neutze

Plot The film follows Baal, a young, ingenious, and unstable poet-balladeer with a scandalous zest for life, love, and liquor, through multiple sexual encounters and cruel, shocking personal adventures that end...

Direction Katariina Lillqvist · Lubos Tuma

Direction Pedro Costa

Cast Elizabeth Pinard

Plot A swan song against the backdrop of a fiery apocalypse? Or is it merely the full moon in the dramatically cloudy night sky that illuminates the singer’s head as if...

Direction Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Cornelia Geiser

Plot A young woman is standing with her back to the window. From the street below, the distant noise of cars and voices fills the air, while the woman above, at...

Direction Brian Large · Kirk Browning · Gary Halvorson

Cast Metropolitan Opera Chorus · James Levine · Metropolitan Opera Orchestra · Plácido Domingo

Plot This is the 1977 television recording of the Rise and Fall of Managing by Kurt Weill

Direction Jan Krüger

Cast Christian Bumba · Geraldine Rose · Swaantje Burow · Mark Pohl

Plot A young man cruises through the nightly city. He meets people, silhouettes, strange and scary. They all end up in a dim night club.

Direction Vsevolod Pudovkin · Yuri Tarich

Cast Mikhail Astangov · Boris Blinov · Sofiya Magarill · Ada Vojtsik

Direction Bertolt Brecht · Carl Koch

Cast Theo Lingen · Peter Lorre · Helene Weigel

Plot Stage play directed by Berthold Brecht, filmed by Carl Koch, about a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier. Mann ist Mann is...

Direction Menahem Golan

Cast Raul Julia · Richard Harris · Julia Migenes · Roger Daltrey

Plot This film adaptation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's musical play The Threepenny Opera portrays the engagement of a gangster (Raul Julia) to an innocent girl (Rachel Robertson) in Victorian-era...