독일이 자랑하는 20세기 서양연극사의 거장 <베르톨트 브레히트>의 대표작!
도덕적으로 사는 것이 아니라 도덕을 수단으로 팔며 살아가는
자본주의시대의 뒷면을 신랄한 풍자와 비판적 웃음으로 풀어낸 브레히트 연극의 결정판 1900년 무렵 런던을 무대로 도적단 수령 메키는 거지짓을 기업화한 사업가 피첨의 딸 폴리와 결혼하지만 매춘부 제니를 배신함으로써 투옥된다. 총감의 딸 루시의 도움으로 탈옥한 메키는 다시 잡혀 교수대에 오르는데..
For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...
It was not just the children who were treated badly by the wealthy Weimar republic. Robert Kramer is released from prison but struggles to adjust to civilian life. His father disowns him out, his wife has left him for another man. There is no work. He eventually arrives in a shelter for the homeless, and seeks salvation through Emma, a prostitute.
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Based on the novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne-Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.
