Baal (1970) on DVD

Actor: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue, Margarethe von Trotta
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Genre: Drama
Year: 1970
Studio: Criterion Collection
Length: 84
Released: 03/20/18
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: DVD
Misc/Special Features: Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Language: English
Subtitles : Yes

DESCRIPTION:

Volker Schlndorff 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 himself cast out from bourgeois society and sets off on a schnapps-soaked rampage. Hewing faithfully to Brecht's text, Schlndorff juxtaposes the theatricality of the prose with bare-bones, handheld 16 mm camera work, which gives immediacy to this savage story of rebellion. Featuring a supporting cast of Fassbinder's troupe of theater actors as well as Margarethe von Trotta, Baal demonstrates the uncompromising nature of Schlndorff's vision and forged a path for New German Cinema.