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 reje...
The movie starts with Annabella (Margie Newton), an attorney, by the bedside of one of her client, a young drug addict in a recovery clinic. Before he dies, he tells her where she can find a taped dia...
Already most of the residents of a small mountain village have emigrated. Because all of the remaining people know each other, most of the affairs are handled among themselves. After one of the local ...