On the occasion of BAAL’s premiere on French television on September 2, 1973, director Volker Schlöndorff recorded this discussion of his instinctual approach to developing the film, as well as its portrayal of art and Brechtian philosophy.
The following interview with filmmaker Margarethe von Trotta was conducted in Munich in December 2017.
The following interview with Eric Rentschler, a film historian and the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Germanic languages and literature at Harvard University, was conducted in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in November 2017.
The following conversation between actor Ethan Hawke and playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman was recorded in New York in November 2017. Hawke and Sherman collaborated on the 2013 stage production “Clive,” an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s play “Baal.”
