Baal
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Hanna Schygulla
Baal by Volker Schlöndorff
DEU 1969, Berlinale Special
Volker Schlöndorff © Weltkino Filmverleih
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Margarethe von Trotta, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Baal by Volker Schlöndorff
DEU 1969, Berlinale Special
Volker Schlöndorff © Weltkino Filmverleih
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue
Baal by Volker Schlöndorff
DEU 1969, Berlinale Special
Volker Schlöndorff © Weltkino Filmverleih
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Marian Seidowsky, Margarethe von Trotta und Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Baal by Volker Schlöndorff
DEU 1969, Berlinale Special
Volker Schlöndorff © Weltkino Filmverleih
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Sigi Graue
Baal by Volker Schlöndorff
DEU 1969, Berlinale Special
Volker Schlöndorff © Weltkino Filmverleih
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Irmgard Paulis
Baal by Volker Schlöndorff
DEU 1969, Berlinale Special
Volker Schlöndorff © Weltkino Filmverleih
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Volker Schlöndorff
Baal by Volker Schlöndorff
DEU 1969, Berlinale Special
© Jim Rakete
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.
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Margarete von Trotta, Juliane Lorenz, Mario Adorf, Peter Fleischmann
A happy reunion!
Baal · Berlinale Special · Feb 07, 2014
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Film crew
44 years after its first broadcast in Western German television the film was presented on the big screen for the first time.
Baal · Berlinale Special · Feb 07, 2014
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Mario Adorf
The actor in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Baal · Berlinale Special · Feb 07, 2014
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Klaus Doldinger
He was responsible for the film score.
Baal · Berlinale Special · Feb 07, 2014
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Katja Riemann
The German actress visited the premiere in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Baal · Berlinale Special · Feb 07, 2014
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Volker Schlöndorff
The director on the stage of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Baal · Berlinale Special · Feb 07, 2014
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Hanna Schygulla
The actress on the stage of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Baal · Berlinale Special · Feb 07, 2014
Short panel talk (mostly in German) in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele with Volker Schlöndorff (directing and script), Klaus Doldinger (score) as well as Margarethe von Trotta and Hanna Schygulla (cast).
Baal
Berlinale Special · Panel Discussion | Talk · Feb 07, 2014
Baal
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