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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Baal_(film)Baal (film) - Wikipedia

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   Baal is a 1970 German television film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It is based on the 1923 play Baal by Bertolt Brecht. The film disappeared after Helene Weigel, Brecht's widow, saw it on television and demanded that it no longer be shown.

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3. www.imdb.com › title › tt0065440Baal (TV Movie 1970) - IMDb

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   Jan 7, 1970 · Baal: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff. With Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue, Margarethe von Trotta, Günther Neutze. Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

   • 6.4/10 (869)
   • Genre: Drama

   • Director: Volker Schlöndorff
   • Release Date: 1970-01-07

4. www.criterion.com › films › 29060Baal (1970) | The Criterion Collection

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   Baal. 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.

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   Is Baal based on a true story?

   • Baal is a 1970 German television film directed by Volker Schlöndorff. It is based on the 1923 play Baal by Bertolt Brecht. The film disappeared after Helene Weigel, Brecht's widow, saw it on television and demanded that it no longer be shown.

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   What is Baal about?

   • Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality. Is an episodic telling of the life of Baal, a German civil servant, following he being discovered as an insightful poet.

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   Who wrote Baal?

   • T he tale of an amoral, antisocial poet who leaves a trail of ruin in his brutish, ravenous wake, Baal occupies a privileged place in the careers of three of twentieth-century Germany’s most significant artists. This primal scream of youthful revolt and refusal was Bertolt Brecht’s first play, written in 1918 when he was all of twenty.

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   Is Baal a good movie?

   • Baal also cultivates a rivalrous, violent, homoerotic friendship with a fellow poet, Ekart, whom he eventually kills. More loose-limbed and rough-hewn than his work tends to be, Baal is the Schlöndorff film most closely aligned with the confrontational spirit of the cinematic new waves that were sweeping the world in the sixties.

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6. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › baal_1970Baal (1970) | Rotten Tomatoes

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   An anti-heroic figure chooses to live a dissipated life on the fringes of society.

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   • Director: Volker Schlöndorff

   • Category: Drama, Romance
   • Actors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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   Mar 20, 2018 · Baal: The Nature of the Beast. T he tale of an amoral, antisocial poet who leaves a trail of ruin in his brutish, ravenous wake, Baal occupies a privileged place in the careers of three of twentieth-century Germany’s most significant artists. This primal scream of youthful revolt and refusal was Bertolt Brecht’s first play, written in 1918 ...

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   Baal. Directed by Volker Schlöndorff • 1970 • West Germany. 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.

9. videolibrarian.com › reviews › classic-filmBaal (1970) Review | Volker Schlöndorff

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   Apr 26, 2018 · Baal is an unpleasant film by design--shot with a jittery handheld camera on 16mm--but it is an interesting time capsule that captures Fassbinder as a young actor, along with the rebellious impulses of the new generation of German filmmakers.