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Threepenny Opera, The (1998)

aka: Dreigroschenoper, Die

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 110 mins (BC) 220 mins (BFI)), £12.49 (BC) £15.99 (BFI)

The classic black & white film version of the Brecht-Weill musical. In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the ‘king of...

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Galileo (1975) (2004)

aka: Galileo Galilei

Subject

Drama; Science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 139 minutes), £19.99

A production of Brecht’s play ‘The Life of Galileo’ directed by Jospeh Losey for the American Film Theatre series in which plays were filmed and then shown in theatres for two days and nights to...

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Kuhle Wampe (1932 Video)

aka: Wither Germany?

Director

Slatan Dudow

Producer

Georg M Hoellering; Robert Scharfenberg

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 68, 48 min., 2004 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A 68-minute feature film written by Berthold Brecht, focusing on the fortunes of a working-class family in depression-era Berlin and the disastrous consequences of poverty and mass unemployment which forced...

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The (2007)

Director

John Doyle

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 133 minutes), £23.00

Mahagonny, an Old West boomtown rises from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle Mecca for lust, liberty, and the pursuit of pleasure. Cash is king, poverty is punishable by death, and anything worth doing is...

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College Brecht: Workshopping Brecht’s Approaches (2012)

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL), £90.00

The film presents a series of workshops with college students, aged 16-18, to suggest approaches to Brecht as playwright and practitioner. The sessions can be adapted to suit high school, undergraduate or...

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Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui (1972)

aka: Gangster Show, The: The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui

Subject

Drama

Distribution

VHS (105 minutes), research viewing only

A 1972 BBC production of the Brecht play in which Arturo Ui (a Hitler look-alike) rises to prominence in mobster-ruled Chicago. Only available for individual or group research viewing on BFI premises

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Great Writers of the Twentieth Century (1997)

Subject

English language and literature

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 50 minutes each), £125.00 each or £500 the set of 25

Profiles of 25 prominent 20th-century novelists, using interviews with friends, relatives and experts along with archive footage. Subjects of individual programmes are: D H Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, F Scott...

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Peter Gidal: Performance of Sorts with Brecht/Volcano/Denials (2011)

Director

Peter Gidal

Subject

Drama; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 97 minutes), £60.00

Peter Gidal is a renowned filmmaker, writer and theorist who has exhibited films internationally for the past 40 years. This limited edition (200) DVD presents a rare performance by Gidal in 2009 in which he...

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