"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."
Josef Bierbichler
as Bertolt Brecht
Monica Bleibtreu
as Helene Weigel
Jeanette Hain
as Käthe Reichel
Elfriede Irrall
as Elisabeth Hauptmann
Birgit Minichmayr
as Barbara Brecht
Margit Rogall
as Ruth Berlau
Samuel Finzi
as Wolfgang Harich
Paul Herwig
as Manfred Wekwerth
Tilman Günther
as Stasi-Offizier
Rena Zednikowa
as Isot Kilian
Claudius Freyer
as Peter Palitzsch
Klaus Pohl
Writer
Jan Schütte
Director
John Cale
Original Music Composer
Edward Kłosiński
Director of Photography