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Change the World - It Needs It: The Story of Hanns Eisler (1976 Film)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Rare footage of both Eisler and Brecht. Includes archive material of Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Theater of War (2010)

Director

John W Walter

Subject

Drama

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 95 minutes), £23.99

From research to rehearsal to opening night in 2006, THEATER OF WAR offers a rare, behind-the-scenes look at how leading actors prepare for their roles. As Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Tony Kushner, and Public...

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Baal by Bertolt Brecht (2012)

Director

Melissa Merchant; Serge Tampalini; Ralf Räuker; Mikala Westall

Subject

Drama; German studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 75 minutes), £75.00 [Institutional rate]

This production of Brecht’s first full-length play features over forty actors and was devised and rehearsed as a performance in four parts - with each part maintaining the narrative structure but employing...

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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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Vanessa Redgrave (1994 Television)

Series

South Bank Show, The

Director

Jack Bond

Producer

Tony Cash

Television arts documentary series. Profile and interview with Vanessa Redgrave. Vanessa Redgrave talks to Melvyn Bragg about her father Michael Redgrave and her mother, Rachel Kempson. She speaks of her...

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