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"Volker Schlöndorff transported Bertolt Brecht's 1918 debut play to contemporary West Germany for this vicious experiment in adaptation, seldom seen for nearly half a century. Oozing with brutish charisma, Rainer Werner Fassbinder embodies the eponymous anarchist poet, who feels that bourg...

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Other Authors:	Schlöndorff, Volker (Screenwriter), Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 1945-1982 (Actor), Graue, Sigi, 1937-1975 (Actor), Trotta, Margarethe von (Actor), Neutze, Günther, 1921-1991 (Actor), Spoerri, Miriam, 1931-2010 (Actor), Seidowsky, Marian (Actor), Paulis, Irmgard, 1943- (Actor), Lohmann, Dietrich, 1941-1997 (director of photography.), Doldinger, Klaus (composer (expression)), Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	German
Language Notes:	German dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Published:	[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
Edition:	Director-approved DVD special edition.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 914.
Subjects:	Antiheroes > Drama. Poets, German > Drama. Brecht, Bertolt, > 1898-1956. Antiheroes. Poets, German. Fiction television programs. Foreign films. Motion pictures, German. Made-for-TV movies. Television adaptations. Drama.