Sigi Graue

Leni, the daughter of an artist plans on opening a new kind of circus and suddenly finds herself able to achieve her goals after the death of a rich friend who has named her sole beneficiary...

Outer space in 2034 is run by greedy corporations in a rundown bureaucracy. Two astronauts, who are not very smart, make their way with shady dealings, smuggling and spaceship wrecking. (imdb)

An adaptation of Bertold Brecht's first stage play written in 1918 at the age of 20 as his reaction to a drama by Hanns Johst on the life of the poet Grabbe. The late Rainer Werner Fassbinder plays both poet and anarchist Baal and himself, roaming through forests and along motorways, greedy for booze, cigarettes, women and men. But his genius and sexual morals only bring him death. (iksv.org)