Baal
By: filmmaker, Volker Schlöndorff
Contributors: Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 1945-1982, actor; Graue, Sigi, 1937-1975, actor; Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Series: Criterion collection; Criterion collection
Published: 2018
Language: ger
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781681434216
Subjects: Television adaptations; Drama; Antiheroes; German Poets
Description: Explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Notes: Title from web page.

Based on the work by Bertolt Brecht.

DVD release of the 1969 television production.

Full screen.

Special features: Interviews from 1973 and 2015 with Schlöndorff; new conversation between Ethan Hawke and Jonathan Marc Sherman; new interviews iwth Margarethe von Trotta and Eric Rentschler; essay by Dennis Lim.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue.

Rating: Not rated.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, full screen.

German dialogue; English subtitles.