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  1. Life of Galileo, The (1994) (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. 164 min.

    Video recording using a single camera of a performance of Brecht’s ‘The Life of Galileo’ in a new version by David Hare at the Almeida Theatre, London, on 28 March 1994, with Richard Griffiths as...

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  2. Brecht on Stage (1991 Video)

    Producer
    Amanda Willett
    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Professor Hans Mayer worked closely with Brecht on the original production of ‘Mother Courage and Her Children’. In this programme he discusses how ‘Mother Courage’ was staged and the work of Brecht...

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  3. Brecht’s Songs (1991 Audio)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Audiocassette. ? min., 1998 sale: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the importance of Brecht’s songs in their dramatic context with epecial emphasis on ‘Mother Courage’. Includes a discussion of how Brecht composed ‘The Alabama Song’ with Kurt Weill.

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  4. German Theater: Brecht and Schiller (1991)

    Subject
    Drama; German studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 116 minutes), $170.00

    This study of Brecht and Schiller explores styles of the German theater. It uses scenes from ‘The Good Woman of Setzuan’ and ‘Love and Intrigue’ to show the parallels in the dramaturgy of the two...

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Bertolt Brecht: Practice Pieces (1964 Video)

    Director
    Nick Havinga
    Producer
    Sig Moglen
    Subject
    Drama

    Brecht wrote the scenes to train actors in his own method for performing classical drama. The scenes were intended to be strenuously rehearsed, but then omitted when the play was presented. The idea was to...

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  8. Brecht: A Man’s a Man (1962)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 27 minutes), £150.00

    Eric Bentley - historian, playwright, drama critic and leading Brecht scholar - introduces scenes from his translation of Bertolt Brecht’s play-with-songs "Mann Ist Mann" ("A Man’s A Man.") The...

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  9. 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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  10. Plebians Rehearse the Uprising, The (Audio)

    aka: Plebejer Proben den Aufstand

    Director
    David Jones
    Subject
    Drama

    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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