
91 minutes
5/14/2000
A portrait of a single day in the late summer of 1956, toward the end of Bertolt Brecht's life, as he prepares to leave his lakeside home, surrounded by the women who form his extended family.

Josef Bierbichler
as Bertolt Brecht

Monica Bleibtreu
as Helene Weigel

Jeanette Hain
as Käthe Reichel

Elfriede Irrall
as Elisabeth Hauptmann

Birgit Minichmayr
as Barbara Brecht
Margit Rogall
as Ruth Berlau

Samuel Finzi
as Wolfgang Harich
Paul Herwig
as Manfred Wekwerth
Tilman Günther
as Stasi-Offizier
Rena Zednikowa
as Isot Kilian

Claudius Freyer
as Peter Palitzsch