Brecht Movies

Following fateful scientific reports, protestors pose the argument for a better future against the vested interest of industry. Small to large, indivi...

Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s opera Rise...

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

The city of Mahagonny, founded by three criminals, becomes a place for people looking for their luck or money. One among them is the lumberjack Jim Ma...

For five years, Stephen McCoy documented street life in Boston. This is what he captured.

The series’ latest Harald Vogl feature (from 1984) completes the filmmaker’s gradual movement away from narrative toward a vérité-style essay film. Go...