Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Burghart Klaußner | ... | Bertolt Brecht | |
Tom Schilling | ... | Bertolt Brecht (1916-1933) | |
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Adele Neuhauser | ... | Helene Weigel |
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Lou Strenger | ... | Helene Weigel |
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Laura de Boer | ... | Isot Kilian |
Mala Emde | ... | Paula Banholzer | |
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Karolina Horster | ... | Käthe Rülicke |
Trine Dyrholm | ... | Ruth Berlau | |
Franz Hartwig | ... | Caspar Neher | |
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Ernst Stötzner | ... | Caspar Neher(1940-1956) |
Maximilian Klas | ... | Manfred Wekwerth | |
Marie Luise Stahl | ... | Angelika Hurwicz | |
Leonie Benesch | ... | Elisabeth Hauptmann / young | |
Maria Dragus | ... | Regine Lutz (as Maria-Victoria Dragus) | |
Anna Herrmann | ... | Käthe Reichel |
Bertolt Brecht, a theatre revolutionary, poet of the state, outsider, looks back on his life in 1956, the year of his death, in East Berlin: from provocations in the Augsburg of the First World War, to the early poetic and amorous height flights in Munich and Berlin in the 1920s, his escape from Hitler and US exile, followed by his later years caught in a dilemma between timeless classic and a failing GDR class fighter, an inflexible free man and a compromised Artist. Written by Happy_Evil_Dude