Format:
1 DVD-Video (84 Min.)
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Color; monaural; 1.37:1 aspect ratio
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12 cm
Content:
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.
Note:
DVD special edition features: interview with Schlöndorff from 1973 and 2015; interview with Margarethe von Trotta; interview with Eric Rentscher
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Fernsehfilm. - Literaturverfilmung. BRD. 1969
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In German with English subtitles
Language:
English
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French
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German
Keywords:
Film
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DVD-Video
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