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.

The Farewell (2000)
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Josef Bierbichler
Bertolt Brecht

Monica Bleibtreu
Helene Weigel

Jeanette Hain
Käthe Reichel

Elfriede Irrall
Elisabeth Hauptmann

Birgit Minichmayr
Barbara Brecht
MR
Margit Rogall
Ruth Berlau

Samuel Finzi
Wolfgang Harich
PH
Paul Herwig
Manfred Wekwerth
TG
Tilman Günther
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