The Poet and the Filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff on Baal

In this featurelength interview conducted by Robert Fischer in February 2015 Volker Schlöndorff talks about the making of his film BAAL 1969 based on the first play ever written by Bertolt Brecht He describes his working relationship with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his group of actors and how the Brecht family hated the film when it first came out resulting in BAALs inavailability for over 40 years