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.’
The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.
赵丽颖,兰西雅,啜妮,王菊,程潇,王啸宇,钱漪
海伦娜·泽格尔,威廉·达福,菲恩·伍法德,艾米丽·沃森,Puiu Mircea Lascus,Lynn Robertson Bruce,Iestyn Evans,Robert Tygner,Sue Beattie,Caroline Bowman
任贤齐,黄晓明,陈冠希,叶璇,刘浩龙,廖启智,邓健泓,方皓玟,王秀琳,高捷,林保怡,刘国昌
赖俊龙,俞芯蕾
克里斯平·格洛弗
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