
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.

as Bertolt Brecht

as Helene Weigel

as Käthe Reichel

as Elisabeth Hauptmann

as Barbara Brecht

as Ruth Berlau

as Wolfgang Harich

as Manfred Wekwerth

as Stasi-Offizier

as Isot Kilian

as Peter Palitzsch