Baal

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Schlöndorff, Volker, film director.

Trotta, Margarethe von, actor.

Werner Fassbinder, Rainer, actor.

Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) (Firm), Distributor.

Kanopy (Firm)., Distributor.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures, German.

Foreign films.

Motion pictures.

Drama.

Genre:

Feature films

Physical Description:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Place of Publication:

Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) 1970

[San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2019

System Details:

digital

video file MPEG-4 Flash

Summary:

Volker Schlöndorff transported Bertolt Brecht's 1918 debut play to contemporary West Germany for this vicious experiment in adaptation, seldom seen for nearly half a century. Oozing with brutish charisma, Rainer Werner Fassbinder embodies the eponymous anarchist poet, who feels that bourgeois society has rejected him and sets off on a schnapps-soaked rampage. Hewing faithfully to Brecht's text, Schlöndorff juxtaposes the theatricality of the prose with bare-bones, handheld 16 mm camera work, which gives immediacy to this savage story of rebellion. BAAL demonstrates the uncompromising vision of its director, a trailblazer of the New German Cinema

Participant:

Margarethe von Trotta, Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Notes:

Vendor supplied data

Film

In Process Record

Originally produced by Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) in 1970

OCLC:

1296609700

Publisher Number:

6793545 Kanopy

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license