Bertolt Brecht Movies

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe",...

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and...

Based on the satirical anti-war comedy of the same name by B. Brecht.

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally...

On the verge of professional breakthrough, a young Bertolt Brecht reflects on relationships.

Macheath (Mack the Knife), notorious bandit and womanizer, runs afoul of Jonathan Peachum when he marries Peachum's daughter Polly in a ceremony of...

The hardships faced by a woman trying to survive a bloody civil war while caring for the abandoned child of the deposed former ruler.

An inexplicable showdown between two men and the downfall of a family that has moved from the prairies to the jungle of the big city.

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures....

Set in contemporary Rome, the film shows through a series of encounters with “ancient” Romans, how the economic and political...

The rise to underworld eminence of the notorious Chicago gangster Artuto Ui - who bears a striking resemblance to Adolf Hitler.

Film adaptation of Berthold Brecht's play of the same name, in which he depicts everyday life in Nazi Germany in loosely connected scenes.

An adaptation of the first play written by Bertolt Brecht, charting the decline and fall of Baal, a young poet who rejects the norms of society and...

He wanted to revolutionize theater practice and at the same time social awareness: Today Brecht, who was born in Augsburg in 1898 and died in East...

Madame Bertini, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived a sheltered life in squalour. She determines to venture into the modern world and have...

In 19th century London, a young girl falls for a womanizing criminal and they decide to wed. Her family strongly disapproves so her father, 'the king...

Three gods descend from the heavens in search of something truly rare: one good person. In the city of Szechwan, they find Shen Teh, a poor...