Baal (film)

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Baal
Directed by Volker Schlöndorff
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  • Hellmut Haffner
  • Hans Prescher
  • Volker Schlöndorff
Written by Volker Schlöndorff
Based on Baal
1923 play
by Bertolt Brecht
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Music by Klaus Doldinger
Cinematography Dietrich Lohmann
Edited by Peter Ettengruber
Release dates
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  • 1970 (1970)
Running time
 87 minutes
Country Germany
Language German

Baal is a 1970 German television film directed by Volker Schlöndorff.[1] It is based on the 1923 play Baal by Bertolt Brecht. The film disappeared after Helene Weigel, Brecht's widow, saw it on television and demanded that it no longer be shown.[2] Ethan Hawke asked Schlöndorff about seeing the film at the Cannes Film Festival, but Schlöndorff replied that he did not know where it was. Eventually the film was discovered in rusty, unmarked cans filed under S. At that point, the film was restored. It was given its first home video release by Criterion in 2018.[3] The film did not make the 1919 play a period piece, and some of the interiors featured intentionally over-the-top colors. It was the first film Dietrich Lohmann shot in color. Margarethe von Trotta was the first actor cast. Fassbinder joined for the title role after Schlöndorff's first choice was unavailable. Much of the supporting cast and crew came from Fassbinder's company, whom he did not want to be put out of work by his absence.[citation needed]

Plot and themes

The film "explores the cult of the genius" as "an anti-heroic figure... chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality." In the film, "Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969", as [p]oet 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...[4] 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."[5]

Cast

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