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.’
The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.
宋康昊,林秀晶,吴正世,全余赟,郑秀晶
吴竞,杨立新
高杉真宙,武田梨奈,松本穗香,水野胜,黑崎莉奈
卡里姆·莱克路,伊萨卡·萨瓦德戈,约翰·雷森,尼古拉·比斯,克莱尔·博德森,西蒙·弗雷,巴贝蒂达·萨乔,杰里米·扎格巴,玛莎坎·加安·东尼奥,罗纳德·贝姆斯
琳赛·洛翰,斯宾塞·加雷特,朱莉娅·奥蒙德
克莱斯·邦,奥古斯特·迪赫,尤利娅·斯尼吉尔,尤里·科洛科利尼科夫,亚历山大·亚森科,叶甫盖尼·齐加诺夫,亚伦·沃多沃兹,Dmitry,Vorontsov,阿列克塞·古斯科夫,阿列克谢·罗津,波琳娜·奥格,德米特里·雷先科夫,尤里·德雷文舍克,Evgeniy,Knyazev,尼基塔·塔拉索夫,马拉特·巴沙罗夫,列昂尼德·亚尔莫利尼克,伊戈尔·韦尔尼克,帕维尔·沃罗日佐夫,亚历山大·秋金