Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet an Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’ The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.详情
主演：汉娜·许古拉,克劳斯·洛维奇,伊凡·德斯尼,吉塞拉·乌尔伦,伊丽莎白·特里斯纳,高夫莱德·约翰,哈克·波姆,克劳斯·霍尔姆,古特·拉姆普雷切特,莉萝·潘蓓,福尔克·施彭勒,伊索尔德·巴尔特,君特·考夫曼,迈克尔·包豪斯,芭芭拉·包姆 ,彼得·贝尔林,赖纳·维尔纳·法斯宾德,Bruce Low,Karl-Heinz von Hassel,Kristine de Loup,Hannes Kaetner,Rolf Bührmann,Norbert Scherer
