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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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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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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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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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Coriolan (1978 Television)

aka: Coriolanus

Series

Welt des Theaters

Director

Karin Hercher

Producer

Ingeborg Trenkler

Brecht’s re-working of Shakespeare’s play adapted by Manfred Wekwerth and Joachim Tenschert. Karin Hercher directs Ekkehard Schall in the title role.

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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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Coriolanus (1965 Audio)

Director

Karin Hercher

Audio recording of Brecht’s Coriolanus directed for the Berliner Ensemble by Karin Hercher and performed at the Old Vic Theatre in August 1965. The play is adapted by Manfred Wekwerth and Joachum...

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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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Plebians Rehearse the Uprising, The (1970 Audio)

aka: Plebejer Proben den Aufstand

Director

David Jones

Live audio recording of Günther Grass’s play that was inspired by the Stalin-Allee worker’s march against the headquarters of the Socialist Unity Party in East Berlin on June 17, 1953 and the reaction...

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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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