Year: 1970
Duration: 01:24:42
Directed by: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue, Margarethe von Trotta, Miriam Spoerri.
Language: German
Country: Germany
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Description: Baal is a television adaptation of the play Baal by the German director Volker Schlöndorff . The main character, who carries the name of the film keeps rambling about, raping and accosting people throughout the movie and is still admired by friends.
For starters, “BAAL” (1970) is arguably the ‘Holy Grail of German New Cinema.’
To make a long story short, Volker Schlöndorff’s 1970 cinematic adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play “BAAL” has been more or less banned for over 40 years and has sat in a vault because Brecht’s bitch widow disapproved of Fassbinder’s leather-jacket-clad depiction of the eponymous antihero and had the film taken out of circulation almost immediately (she called the very same night it was first screened and had it banned, thus being only screened once ever). For Fassbinder fans, Baal is certainly a treat because, as the filmmaker’s Danish friend Christian Braad Thomsen described in his comprehensive study “Fassbinder: The Life And Work Of A Provocative Genius”, Fassbinder essentially plays himself! Although this film was just recently re-released in German theaters, as well as on DVD, I offer this rare rip now due to the 12 month rule on CG. Unfortunately, it does not include English subtitles (though apparently the recently released official DVD does).
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If you need English subtitles, click this link: http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/5915668/baal-en
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Quote of the day ” Brecht’s bitch widow”, Take that, don’t be bannin’ no films Beotch! Intrigued to the Nth degree, I’m off to watch Rainer i his leather jacket, I’m sure he wears it well. Hey, maybe she just pictured her husbands creation of the friendly rambling rapist all decked out in Brooks Bros or such, hey, maybe there was another side to ol’ Bertolt he hid from her, or, well, she’s just a bitch. Either way, KUDOS Wip!
Damn, I had the link for the english subs here as well, didn’t read the comment above till I was done, well, thats what I get, so Thanx for the link tasoy428.