Mother Courage and Her Children (1957)

Movie
Original title	Mother Courage and her children
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1957
length	175 minutes
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Director	Bertolt Brecht (theater) ; Erich Engel (theater) ; Peter Hagen (picture director)
production	German television broadcasting
music	Paul Dessau
occupation
	Helene Weigel : Mother Courage; Ekkehard Schall : Eilif; Heinz Schubert : Swiss cheese; Angelika Hurwicz : Kattrin; Willi Schwabe : Advertiser; Erich Franz : Sergeant; Ernst Busch : Cook; Fred Düren : Field Captain; Wolf Kaiser : field preacher; Harry Gillmann : Equipment Master; Regine Lutz : Yvette Pottier; Peter Kalisch : One-eyed; Wolf von Beneckendorff : Colonel; Ralf Bregazzi : clerk; Axel Triebel : Officer; Bella Waldritter : Old woman; Else Wolz : Farmer's wife; Friedrich Gnaß : Farmer; Dieter Knaup : Soldier; Hans W. Hamacher : Soldier;

Mother Courage and Her Children is the recording, created in 1957, of the direct broadcast by German TV radio of a production by Bertolt Brecht and Erich Engel at the Berliner Ensemble based on a model production from 1949.

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Mother Courage and her children was broadcast live on October 15, 1957 from the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm .

The model was based on the drama of the same name by Bertolt Brecht from 1941. Teo Otto and Heinrich Kilger created the set . The musical direction was in the hands of Hans-Dieter Hosalla .

Mother Courage and her children in the online dictionary of East German television