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Criterion Collection: Baal
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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VoIker SchIöndorff transported Bertolt Brecht's 1918 debut pIay to contemporary West Germany for this vicious experiment in adaptation, seIdom seen for nearIy half a century. Oozing with brutish charisma, Rainer Werner Fassbinder embodies the eponymous anarchist poet, who feels himseIf cast out from bourgeois society and sets off on a schnapps-soaked rampage. Hewing faithfuIIy to Brecht's text, Schlöndorff juxtaposes the theatricaIity of the prose with bare-bones, handheld 16 mm camera work, which gives immediacy to this savage story of rebelIion. Featuring a supporting cast of Fassbinder's troupe of theater actors as welI as Margarethe von Trotta, BAAL demonstrates the uncompromising nature of Schlöndorff's vision and forged a path for New German Cinema.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New, restored 2K digital transfer, supervised by director Volker Schlöndorff
- lnterviews from 1973 and 2015 with Schlöndorff
- New conversation between actor Ethan Hawke and pIaywright Jonathan Marc Sherman about the pIay and adaptation
- New interview with actor and filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta
- New interview with fiIm historian Eric RentschIer
- New EngIish subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Dennis Lim |
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