Despite the collapse of Communism, to which he devoted his life, Bertolt Brecht remains a great figure of 20th Century drama: the powerful playwright of “Mother Courage,” “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” ...
Revolutionary playwright Bertolt Brecht gets the standard-issue TV biopic treatment in this two-parter saved only by 'Reds'-style interviews. Buried within Heinrich Breloer’s superficial and plodding ...
Dafür gibt es mehrere Gründe. Der erste ist offensichtlich: Tom Schillings junger Brecht erreicht nie die Überzeugungskraft und die Ambivalenz von Burghart Klaußners grandios-tragischer Altersversion.
New York filmmaker Zoe Beloff appears for a live Q&A following a screening of her films Glass House and A Model Family in a Model Home, based respectively on the unrealized Hollywood film scenarios of ...
The directors of the Brecht Festival Augsburg have curated an online-only event that runs the gamut from experimental films to poetry slams and puppetry. By A.J. Goldmann Every February, the Brecht ...
Revolutionary playwright Bertolt Brecht gets the standard-issue TV biopic treatment in this two-parter saved only by 'Reds'-style interviews. Buried within Heinrich Breloer’s superficial and plodding ...
Buried within Heinrich Breloer’s superficial and plodding two-part TV movie about Bertolt Brecht are old and new interviews with the playwright’s collaborators that hold a fascination light years away ...
Director Heinrich Breloer mixes drama with documentary in 'Brecht,' his marathon TV biopic of radical playwright and leftist icon Bertolt Brecht. By Stephen Dalton Bertolt Brecht was lucky there was ...