Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlig...。一名女子坐了三十年冤狱之后终于被证实清白,并且她得知将她送进监狱的是她三十年前的上流社会爱人,一场漫长的报仇开始了。。