Brecht's war profiteer mom will destroy your faith in capitalism AND motherhood.
A recording of the 1939 play "Mother Courage and Her Children" for German TV.
Acting
Lotte Lenya's voice could shatter glass and souls.
Direction
Buckwitz preserves Brecht's alienation effect brutally.
Writing
Every line is a knife wrapped in a song.
Director
Harry Buckwitz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lenya originated Jenny in 'Threepenny Opera' and was Brecht's muse; this was her redemption arc after fleeing the Nazis.
Brecht wrote this in 1939 watching Europe burn again, explicitly to shame audiences out of fascist complacency. It failed.
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