Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet an...
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.
Juliette Bharucha,吉尔多·罗伊,Vincent-Guillaume Otis
马克斯·冯·叙多夫,多米妮克·桑达,皮埃尔·克里蒙地
马丽,惠英红,朱亚文,王祖蓝,薛凯琪,谢天华,潘斌龙,袁富华,江美仪,太保,张达明,姜大卫,鲍起静,方平,谷德昭,黄德斌,余安安,秦煌,卢惠光,龚慈恩,车婉婉,张达伦,易天雄,陈奂仁,宝珮如,林珊珊,林晓峰,吴志雄,王敏奕,冯文娟,雅玫,黄璐,杨青,黄楚桐,赵润南,王佳怡,林恺铃
朱丽叶塔·卡迪纳利,米内尔娃·卡塞罗,奥古斯汀·德拉·柯特,费利佩·冈萨雷斯·奥塔诺,拉斐尔·斯普雷杰尔伯德,玛丽亚·尤金妮娅·苏亚雷斯
阿尔巴诺·杰罗尼莫,爱德华·阿什利,维多利亚·盖拉
王尊