Baal

An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.

Cast

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

as Baal

Sigi Graue

as Ekart

Margarethe von Trotta

as Sophie

Günther Neutze

as Nech

Hanna Schygulla

as Luise

Marian Seidowsky

as Johannes

Irmgard Paulis

as Johanna

Wilmut Borell

as Mjurk

Christine Schuberth

as Stripperin Sabitka

Walter Sedlmayr

as Anwalt Pschierer

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