Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1961)
- Directed by
- Manfred Wekwerth, Peter Palitzsch
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- German Democratic Republic
- Runtime
- 2h 31m
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A filmed stage performance of Bertolt Brecht's play about a canteen wagon owner trying to profit from the Thirty Years' War while her children are killed around her. It follows Mother Courage as she pulls her wagon through battle zones and loses each of her three children to the violence she tries to exploit.
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What happens
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Mother Courage and Her Children) 1961 East German film produced by DEFA documenting the Berliner Ensemble staging of Bertolt Brecht's play of the same name. The play ran from 1959 to 1961, with Manfred Wekwerth and Peter Palitzsch directing, and stars Helene Weigel in the title role; it was modelled after the original 1949 production by Brecht and Erich Engel. The film received a prize at the Locarno Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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