Bertolt Brecht Movies

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and...

Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political...

A television staging of the 1941 Brecht play, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.

A behind-the-scenes look at The Public Theater's production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage" that examines the playwright's life and ideas.

Madame Bertini, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived a sheltered life in squalour. She determines to venture into the modern world and have...

Galileo, an eminent professor and scientist in the 17th century Venetian Republic, is short of money. A prospective student tells him about a novel...

A marginal version of Brecht’s piece, “Baal”.

A hard-hitting new production of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus at the Teatro...

Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Junta’s Chancellery, entered into two large...

When the gods appear in disguise the only person who shows them hospitality is the young girl Shen Te and for this she is awarded by them. After a...

This first film adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play about class distinctions was made in 1955 in the Vienna Rosenhügel studios, but it was...

When the powerful of this world give a small scoundrel the opportunity to become a big scoundrel - how many opportunities there are for a funny...

Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna...

Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.

Based on a short story by Bertolt Brecht.

A tory based on classical theatre play "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht.