“The Songs Were Popular, Savage And Satirical”

Great footage from a 1962 Monitor episode, directed by Ken Russell, which has Lotte Lenya revisiting Brecht/Weill. The writer and composer knew evil was lurking  beneath the surface of 1920s Germany, something far worse than Macheath’s cleverly hidden jack knife, dear, but not even they could have predicted the horrors to follow. A society beyond the reach of satire is a scary thing.


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