Baal

Baal

87 mins | Drama | Jan. 7, 1970

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.’

Baal

87 mins | Drama | Jan. 7, 1970

Baal
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.’
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Hallelujah-Film GmbH
Original title Baal
Directors Volker Schlöndorff
Writers Bertolt Brecht, Volker Schlöndorff

Cast

Sigi Graue

as Ekart

Günther Neutze

as Nech

Hanna Schygulla

as Luise

Marian Seidowsky

as Johannes

Irmgard Paulis

as Johanna

Wilmut Borell

as Mjurk

Christine Schuberth

as Stripperin Sabitka

Walter Sedlmayr

as Anwalt Pschierer

Günther Kaufmann

as Kutscher Orgauer

Miriam Spoerri

as Emilie Mech

Johannes Buzalski

as Penner bei Prozession

Carla Egerer

as Junges Weib

Michael Gempart

as Mann mit Kamm

Peer Raben

as Holzfäller mit rotem Hemd

Jean Launay

as Mann mit Magengeschwür

Andrea Brüdern

as Junge Dame

Claudia Butenuth

as Frau mit Baby

Harry Baer

as Gast am kalten Buffet

Irm Hermann

as Hausfrau

Rudolf Waldemar Brem

as Erster Holzfäller

Sigi Sommer

as Zweiter Holzfäller