Baal.
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...
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Streaming Video (via Kanopy) |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | German |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection),
1970.
Kanopy Streaming, 2019. |
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| Summary: | 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. BAAL demonstrates the uncompromising vision of its director, a trailblazer of the New German Cinema. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. Film In Process Record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Access: | CU Boulder license expires: 1/7/2025. |
| Participant or Performer: | Margarethe von Trotta, Rainer Werner Fassbinder |
| Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Originally produced by Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) in 1970. |