The Farewell

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.

• Klaus PohlWriter
• Jan SchütteDirector
• John CaleOriginal Music Composer

• Josef BierbichlerBertolt Brecht
• Monica BleibtreuHelene Weigel
• Jeanette HainKäthe Reichel
• Elfriede IrrallElisabeth Hauptmann
• Birgit MinichmayrBarbara Brecht
• Margit RogallRuth Berlau
• Samuel FinziWolfgang Harich
• Paul HerwigManfred Wekwerth
• Tilman GüntherStasi-Offizier
• Rena ZednikowaIsot Kilian
• Claudius FreyerPeter Palitzsch