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...。故事讲述一名带着铁锤上门的青年马提夫闯入岳父家中、试图杀死岳父替女友复仇,却发现一连串隐藏在这个平凡家庭底下的黑暗戏谑真相。。