Baal
(1970)
Regisseur:
Volker SchlöndorffSchauspieler:
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Günther Neutze, Hanna Schygulla, Claudia Butenuth, Wilmut Borell, Irm Hermann, Günther Kaufmann, Sabine von Maydell, Walter Sedlmayr, Sigi Graue, Miriam Spoerri, Marian Seidowsky, Ulf-Jürgen Wagner"Baal" ist Bertolt Brechts erstes Bühnenstück, geschrieben 1918 im Alter von 20 Jahren. 1970 verfilmte Volker Schlöndorff das Stück mit Rainer Werner Fassbinder in der Hauptrolle. Doch nach der Uraufführung ließ Bertolt Brechts Witwe, Helene Weigel, weitere Vorführungen untersagen und "Baal" verschwand für über 40 Jahre in den Archiven. Am 20. März erlebt der Film seine Kinouraufführung. In 24 Kapiteln erzählt Volker Schlöndorff von dem selbstverliebten und lebenshungrigen Dichter Baa und überträgt das historische Brecht-Stück in die Zeit der 1968er.
Starke, in die Zeite der 68er verlegte Verfilmung von Bertolt Brechts erstem Theaterstück mit Rainer Werner Fassbinder als perfekter Verkörperung des Titelhelden, eines Grobians und Künstlers.
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.’
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.’
