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.’
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Baal Cast
| Name |
Character |
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Margarethe von Trotta
She was 27, now 82 years old
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as Sophie |
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Christine Schuberth
She was 25, now 80 years old
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as Stripperin Sabitka |
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Rudolf Waldemar Brem
He was 21, 67 years old when he died
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as Erster Holzfäller |
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Peer Raben
He was 29, 66 years old when he died
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as Holzfäller mit rotem Hemd |
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Herbert Rimbach
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder
He was 24, 37 years old when he died
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as Baal |
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Irm Hermann
She was 27, now 82 years old
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as Hausfrau |
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Michael Gempart
He was 29, now 83 years old
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as Mann mit Kamm |
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Hanna Schygulla
She was 26, now 80 years old
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as Luise |
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Johannes Buzalski
He was 51, 58 years old when he died
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as Penner bei Prozession |
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Günther Kaufmann
He was 22, 64 years old when he died
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as Kutscher Orgauer |
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Carla Egerer
She was 29, now 24 years old
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as Junges Weib |
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Günther Neutze
He was 48, 69 years old when he died
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as Nech |
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Miriam Spoerri
She was 38, 78 years old when she died
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as Emilie Mech |
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Claudia Butenuth
She was 23, 69 years old when she died
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as Frau mit Baby |
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Harry Baer
He was 22, now 77 years old
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as Gast am kalten Buffet |
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Jean Launay
He was 17, now 72 years old
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as Mann mit Magengeschwür |
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Marian Seidowsky
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as Johannes |
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Walter Sedlmayr
He was 44, 64 years old when he died
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as Anwalt Pschierer |
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Eva Pampuch
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Sigi Graue
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as Ekart |
Baal Crew
