Baal (1970)

Drama

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.’

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Runtime: 87 mins Rating: 6.7

Cast

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Baal

Irm Hermann

Walter Sedlmayr

Anwalt Pschierer

Hanna Schygulla

Luise

Peer Raben

Holzfäller mit rotem Hemd

Harry Baer

Gast am kalten Buffet

Günther Kaufmann

Kutscher Orgauer

Rudolf Waldemar Brem

Erster Holzfäller

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Klaus Doldinger

Original Music Composer

Volker Schlöndorff

Director

Volker Schlöndorff

Producer

Volker Schlöndorff

Screenplay

Dietrich Lohmann

Director of Photography

Bertolt Brecht

Story

Hans Prescher

Producer

Hans Fries

Production Manager

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