Movie Description:
Playwright, poet and theatricalproducerBertolt Brecht maintained no fewer than three mistresses at any one time throughout his adult life. Farewelltakes place in a single day, inthe latesummer of 1956 as Brecht prepares to leave his lakeside home and return to Berlin for the fall theater season. Hiscurious menage includes his protective wife, pyromaniac daughter, former mistress, and current young favorite as well asWolfgang Harich--a politicalreformer who knowingly shares his wife with Brecht. Surroundedby the women who form his extended family, he is the center of a quiet storm. Nostalgia andhope, jealousy and tenderness, betrayal and trust all vie with one another during the final act of his life.
