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Round Heads and Pointed Heads is an epic parable play written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Margarete Steffin, Emil Burri, Elisabeth Hauptmann, and the composer Hanns Eisler. The play's subtitle is Money Calls to Money and its authors describe it as "a tale of horror." The play is a satirical anti-Nazi parable about a fictitious country called Yahoo in which the rulers maintain their control by setting the people with round heads against those with pointed heads, thereby substituting racial relations for their antagonistic class relations. The play is composed of 11 scenes in prose and blank verse and 13 songs. Unlike another of Brecht's plays from this period, The Mother, Round Heads and Pointed Heads was addressed to a wide audience, Brecht suggested, and took account of "purely entertainment considerations." Brecht's notes on the play, written in 1936, contain the earliest theoretical application of his "defamiliarization" principle to his own "non-Aristotelian" drama.
Original Release
01/01/1985
Cast
Name | Character |
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Reimar J. Baur | Der Vizekönig |
Volkmar Kleinert | Missena |
Dietrich Körner | Angelo Iberin |
Christian Grashof | Callas |
Katja Paryla | Nanna |
Gudrun Ritter | Frau Cornamontis |
Simone von Zglinicki | die Oberin von San Barabas |
Roman Kaminski | Anwalt der Familie de Guzman |
Horst Weinheimer | Emanuele de Guzman |
Margit Bendokat | Isabella de Guzman, Spitzkopf / Isabella de Guzman |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Reimar J. Baur | Der Vizekönig |
Volkmar Kleinert | Missena |
Dietrich Körner | Angelo Iberin |
Christian Grashof | Callas |
Katja Paryla | Nanna |
Gudrun Ritter | Frau Cornamontis |
Simone von Zglinicki | die Oberin von San Barabas |
Roman Kaminski | Anwalt der Familie de Guzman |
Horst Weinheimer | Emanuele de Guzman |
Margit Bendokat | Isabella de Guzman, Spitzkopf / Isabella de Guzman |
Harry Pietzsch | Lopez |
Peter Borgelt | azarante, Kommandeur von Heilig Kreuz und Erster Iberin-Soldat |
Christian Stövesand | Herr Peruiner, Pachtherr und Spitzkopf |
Lothar Dimke | Herr de Hoz |
Johanna Clas | |
Lothar Förster | |
Helga Labudda | |
Gerhard Lau | |
Walter Lendrich | |
Horst Manz |