Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's unique 1930 opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny gets a new interpretation in...
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Libretto
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2010
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This release features performances of songs from different Brecht/Weill collaborations from the 1950s throught the '70s as...
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Featured Music
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2005
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This Russian film is an updated version of Bertold Brecht's stage play. Brecht's plays always highlight the intersection...
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Play Author
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1996
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After the death of her crane-driving husband in Germany in the 1930s, Ella must find some way to earn a living. Donning her...
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Play Author
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1992
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Featured Music, Play Author
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1990
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Johnny Walker (Anthony Michael Hall) is a hot-shot high-school quarterback who receives intoxicating offers from spirited...
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Featured Music
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1988
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The Big Town is Chicago, circa 1957. Matt Dillon stars as a small-town crapshooter who heads to the Windy City to seek his...
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Featured Music
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1987
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From Opera by
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1980
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Play Author
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1975
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In this very intellectual German film, a young man drives around Rome. When he is not driving around, he sits on a park...
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Book Author
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1972
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The Shameless Old Lady should have been a wry French satire of society's misconceptions about the elderly; alas, the film is...
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Short Story Author
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1965
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Hampered by over-orchestrated music, smeary color photography and (in the English version at least) poor dubbing, this 1963...
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From Musical by
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1962
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Based on the noted play by Bertolt Brecht, this tragic drama is set in 17th-century Europe and tells of Mutter Courage...
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Play Author
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1960
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Play Author
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1955
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Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious...
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Short Story Author
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1943
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A relocation camp for itinerant, deeply-depressed workers provides the setting for this provocative drama. Most of the camp...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Play Author
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1931
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Director
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1923
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