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Volker Schlöndorff transported Bertolt Brecht’s 1918 debut play to contemporary West Germany for this vicious experiment in adaptation, seldom seen for nearly half a century. Oozing with brutish charisma, Rainer Werner Fassbinder embodies the eponymous anarchist poet, who feels that bourgeois society has rejected him and sets off on a schnapps-soaked rampage. Hewing faithfully to Brecht’s text, Schlöndorff juxtaposes the theatricality of the prose with bare-bones, handheld 16 mm camera work, which gives immediacy to this savage story of rebellion. Featuring a supporting cast drawn from Fassbinder’s troupe of theater actors that also includes Margarethe von Trotta, Baal demonstrates the uncompromising vision of its director, a trailblazer of the New German Cinema.
Original Release
01/07/1970
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Baal |
Sigi Graue | Ekart |
Margarethe von Trotta | Sophie |
Günther Neutze | Mech / Nech |
Miriam Spoerri | Emilie Mech |
Marian Seidowsky | Johannes |
Irmgard Paulis | Johanna |
Carla Egerer | Junges Weib |
Wilmut Borell | Mjurk |
Rudolf Waldemar Brem | Erster Holzfäller |
Directors
Writers
Volker Schlöndorff, Bertolt Brecht
Cast
Name | Character |
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Baal |
Sigi Graue | Ekart |
Margarethe von Trotta | Sophie |
Günther Neutze | Mech / Nech |
Miriam Spoerri | Emilie Mech |
Marian Seidowsky | Johannes |
Irmgard Paulis | Johanna |
Carla Egerer | Junges Weib |
Wilmut Borell | Mjurk |
Rudolf Waldemar Brem | Erster Holzfäller |
Andrea Brüdern | Junge Dame |
Claudia Butenuth | Frau mit Baby |
Johannes Buzalski | Penner bei Prozession |
András Fricsay Kali Son | (as Andreas Fricsay) |
Michael Gempart | Mann mit Kamm |
Wilhelm Grasshoff | |
Jean Launay | Mann mit Magengeschwür |
Sabine von Maydell | |
Eva Pampuch | |
Herbert Rimbach |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Volker Schlöndorff | Producer |
Hellmut Haffner | Producer |
Hans Prescher | Producer |