Baal
By: producers, Hellmut Haffner, Hans Prescher, Volker Schlöndorff ; teleplay written and directed by Volker Schlöndorff
Contributors: Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 1945-1982, actor; Graue, Sigi, 1937-1975, actor; Trotta, Margarethe von, actor; Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Edition: Blu-ray special edition.
Series: The Criterion collection -- 914; Criterion collection -- 914.
Published: 2018
Language: ger
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Television adaptations; Drama; Poets; Alienation (Social psychology); Middle class
Other titles: Baal (Television program : 1970)
Description: A charismatic, anarchist poet rails against the bourgeois society that he feels has rejected him.
Notes: Based on the play by Bertolt Brecht.

LPCM mono, full screen 1.37:1.

Essay by critic Dennis Lim in container.

Features: interviews from 1973 and 2015 with Schlöndorff; new conversation between actor Ethan Hawke and playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman about the play and adaptation; new interview with actor and filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta; new interview with film historian Eric Rentschler; new English subtitle translation.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue, Margarethe von Trotta, Günther Neutze, Hanna Schygulla.

Originally broadcast on television in 1970.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

This is a Blu-ray disc made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players.

For private home use only.

In German with optional English subtitles.