Characters & Themes
Baal (1970) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1970 · 87 mins · German
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- Directed by
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Starring
- Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Michael Gempart, Günther Kaufmann
Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
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