Plots(1)
The story of a sutler woman who loses her children to war. Erich Engel and Bertolt Brecht's first version of the material in a cinematic adaptation which takes the play to the stage as filmic content, using rack focus as a theatrical device. (Locarno Festival)
Cast
Ekkehard Schall
German Empire
Best movies:
The Condemned of Altona (1962)
Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser (1957)
In the Dust of the Stars (1976)
Gerhard Bienert
German Empire
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
M (1931)
The Blue Angel (1930)
Carola Braunbock
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973)
Seven Freckles (1978)
Man of Straw (1951)
Hilmar Thate
German Empire
Best movies:
The Gleiwitz Case (1961)
Professor Mamlock (1961)
Veronika Voss (1982)
Helene Weigel
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Metropolis (1927)
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)
The Seventh Cross (1944)
Heinz Schubert
German Empire
Best movies:
Strongman Ferdinand (1976)
Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977)
Emil and the Detectives (1964)
Hans Wilhelm Hamacher
German Empire
Best movies:
The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse (1960)
Jahrgang 21 (1957)
Mister Dynamit - morgen küßt Euch der Tod (1967)
Wolf Kaiser
German Empire
Best movies:
The Story of Little Mook (1953)
Regine Lutz
Switzerland
Best movies:
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
Tatort (1970) (series)
The Secret of the Wolf's Gorge (2008) (TV movie)
Wolfgang Lohse
German Empire
Best movies:
Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) (series)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Angelika Hurwicz
German Empire
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Willi Schwabe
German Empire
Best movies:
The Story of Little Mook (1953)
Gerd E. Schäfer
German Empire
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Werner Riemann
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Fritz Hollenbeck
German Empire
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Eva Brumby
German Empire
Best movies:
Das Leben des schizophrenen Dichters Alexander März (1976) (TV movie)
The Strange Countess (1961)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Harry Gillmann
German Empire
Best movies:
Es (1966)
Ernst Busch
German Empire
Best movies:
Comradeship (1931)
The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? (1932)