The Simple Thing That Is Hard to Do S01 E02

Burghart Klaußner (as Bertolt Brecht) Tom Schilling (as Young Bertolt Brecht) Adele Neuhauser (as Helene Weigel) Trine Dyrholm (as Ruth Berlau) Lou Strenger (as Young Helene Weigel) Bertolt Brecht (as Himself (archive footage)) Petr Stach (as Singer and hurdy gurdy) Helmut Zhuber (as Latin teacher Dr. Gebhard)

east germany docudrama playwright world war i berlin, germany 1920s communist writer exiled artist portrait of an artist government witch hunt musical theater 1930s 1910s 1950s 1940s nazism