The Farewell
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.

Bertolt Brecht

Helene Weigel

Käthe Reichel

Elisabeth Hauptmann

Barbara Brecht
Ruth Berlau

Wolfgang Harich
Manfred Wekwerth
Stasi-Offizier
Isot Kilian

Peter Palitzsch