Bertolt Brecht, a theatre revolutionary, poet of the state, outsider, looks back on his life in 1956, the year of his death, in East Berlin: adolescent provocations in Augsburg during the First World War, early poetic and amorous flights of fancy in the Munich and Berlin of the 1920s, his escape from Hitler, returning from the US exile, followed by his later years caught in a dilemma between timeless classic and a failing GDR class fighter, an indefatigable free spirit and compromised artist.
Elenco: Burghart Klaußner , Tom Schilling , Adele Neuhauser , Lou Strenger , Jaroslava Laufenová , Leonie Benesch , Mala Emde , Friederike Becht , Thimo Meitner , Trine Dyrholm , Laura de Boer , Ernst Stötzner , Franz Hartwig , Vojtěch Havelka , Petra Bučková , Karolina Horster , Maximilian Klas , Marie Luise Stahl , Maria Dragus , Anna Herrmann , Götz Schubert , Franz Dinda , Vincent Redetzki , Anatole Taubman , Hannes Wegener , Jessica McIntyre , Lutz Blochberger , Jakub Krejča , Jan Šantroch , Gitta Schweighöfer , Markus Hering , Hoskovec Vaclav , Kerstin Thielemann , Rafael Gareisen , Michael Dudek , Filip Čáp , Manuel Zschunke , Tomás Slavicek , Oscar Olivo , Ole Eisfeld .