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Brecht

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Original title

Brecht

Year

2019

Running time

187 min.

Country

Germany

Director

Heinrich Breloer

Screenwriter

Heinrich Breloer

Cast

Music

Hans-Peter Ströer

Cinematography

Gernot Roll

Producer

Co-production Germany-Austria-Czech Republic;

Bavaria Fiction, Satel Film, Mia Film

Genre

Drama. Documentary | Biography. Literature

Synopsis

Heinrich Breloer turns his attentions to the biography of the writer Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). In a mixture of fiction and documentary, his film sketches a self-confident man who was nonetheless beset by doubts, full of a lust for life and vulnerability. Brecht’s art reflects his inner conflict and is closely linked to the political upheavals of the time. Following Brecht’s life from the beginning of World War I to his death, Breloer concentrates on Brecht’s relationships with his women and his colleagues at the Berliner Ensemble. Time and again, individual portraits are distilled from the extensive material, including that of Brecht’s wife Helene Weigel, who played the legendary role of ‘Mother Courage’; his protégé Martin Pohl, who was arrested by the Stasi; and Brecht’s collaborator and lover, Ruth Berlau. Excerpts from interviews with Brecht’s first love Paula Banholzer, directors Egon Monk and Manfred Wekwerth, actor Regine Lutz and many others contribute to this portrait of the icon of political theatre as a combative, loving and conflicted contemporary.

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Brecht

2019

Heinrich Breloer

6.1

(66)