Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Carla Egerer
- Junges Weib
- (as Carla Aulaulu)
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- TriviaThe widow of Bertolt Brecht, Helene Weigel, was extremely unsatisfied with this adaptation. On her behalf, the film was removed from public release. Only in 2011 the granddaughter of Brecht allowed the film to be restored and publicly shown (the restored version was released in 2014).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1977 (1977)
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When you think that saw everything about bad pictures suddenly you bump into another rubbish production increasing the long list doomed to oblivion whereby they deserve stay there forever at trash can of cinema industry, stay tuned for forthcoming entries still buried that in near future like it or not will see the light, it's specifically the case of the outrageous "BAAL" that hurts the viewers in plenty way as never seen before.
Technically Baal never was released properly, just exposed by small audience in several private sessions aiming for be assessed by them, aftermaths the baffled watchers warned the producers forget the project otherwise it will be rejected by large majority would be became a huge flop, so just recently the filmmaker Volker Schlondorff has a nerve to recover it to release in a thematic box as really happened intitled at "New German Cinema".
A nasty leading cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder labeled a genius poet gone wild against the system becoming bitter and sleazy behavior, a sort of irreversible self-destruction process among it enters an unaware viewers that quickly perceive an unorthodoxy setting as art movie, we delve into an everlasting nightmare praying to reach at final, a kind of countdown where every single minute count, a true endurance test to the audience without any reward.
Thanks for reading.
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First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 1.
Technically Baal never was released properly, just exposed by small audience in several private sessions aiming for be assessed by them, aftermaths the baffled watchers warned the producers forget the project otherwise it will be rejected by large majority would be became a huge flop, so just recently the filmmaker Volker Schlondorff has a nerve to recover it to release in a thematic box as really happened intitled at "New German Cinema".
A nasty leading cast Rainer Werner Fassbinder labeled a genius poet gone wild against the system becoming bitter and sleazy behavior, a sort of irreversible self-destruction process among it enters an unaware viewers that quickly perceive an unorthodoxy setting as art movie, we delve into an everlasting nightmare praying to reach at final, a kind of countdown where every single minute count, a true endurance test to the audience without any reward.
Thanks for reading.
Resume:
First watch: 2025 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 1.
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- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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