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Beteilige Person: Brecht, Bertolt (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Clarke, Alan (RegisseurIn), Mutton, Dave (Kameramann/frau), Bowie, David (SchauspielerIn), Austin, Robert (SchauspielerIn), Wootton, Russell (SchauspielerIn)
Format: Video Software Buchkapitel
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London BFI [2016]
Schriftenreihe:Alan Clarke at the BBC, Volume 2: Disruption
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Zusammenfassung:Baal was Brecht's first play, and rages with strange, provocative adolescent glee and anger, all angst, spite and bitter humour, while foreshadowing both the fascination with outcasts and the experimental techniques for which he would become famous, not least the use of song and heightened dialogue. The eponymous anti-hero is a filthy, dissolute artist running on schnapps, sex and his all-encompassing loathing of polite Weimar society and its hypocrisies. Blessed with a divine gift for poetry and performance, he's a user, a manipulator, a self-aggrandising, self-pitying narcissist and all-round bastard - a prototype rockstar, you could argue. We follow him down, from elite salons through sodden barrooms and fetid garrets, through debasement, abuse and abandonment, rape and murder, finally out into the wild uncaring heart of the Black Forest ... Clarke mounts the piece with a degree of stylisation that terrifies current British TV. Intercut with abstract split-screen monologues and songs, the cast perform as though in a live performance against huge, detailed sets erected as frieze-like tableaux, the camera usually at a distance - as if, indeed, you were in the stalls viewing a theatre stage. A filthy, snaggletoothed scum-seer, Bowie himself suggests an expressionist woodcut come to life, yet exudes a fitting naturalism the cast around him avoids. [www.uncut.co.uk]
Umfang:1 DVD-Video (64 Min.) farbig