Films by Ferdinand Teubner

Germany 2009
by Dirk Szuszies, Karin Kaper

THE BRIG is an act of rebellion. The founders of The Living Theatre, Judith Malina and Julian Beck, were among the initiators New York’s first General Strike for Peace in May 1963. It follows that they were the ones to take up ex-marine Kenneth Brown’s manuscript and bring it to the stage in 1964. The viewer becomes a part of a claustrophobic world where there is no escape from the intrinsic violence. The Living Theatre, with their moving attack against a sacred institution like the Marines, bec