Bertold Brecht Articles

Topol in Joseph Losey's Galileo (top); Maggie Cheung in Zhang Yimou's Hero (middle); Jean-Pierre Cargol, François Truffaut in Truffaut's L'Enfant sauvage / The Wild Child (bottom) According to London's bfi Southbank site, filmmaker Joseph Losey, a victim of the Red Scare who settled in England in the '50s, had already directed Bertold Brecht’s play Galileo in 1947 in Los Angeles. In the 1974 film version [...]

Monica Bleibtreu, a respected stage, film, and television actress, and mother of Moritz Bleibtreu, died yesterday, May 14, in Hamburg. She was 65. Bleibtreu had been battling cancer for a number of years. Born into a theatrical family in Vienna on May 4, 1944, the dark, strong-featured Monica Bleibtreu had been working steadily on German-language television since the late 1960s. Among her TV credits are [...]