Helene Weigel – Instructions for a Revolution

At last, a portrait of the great Helene Weigel. Born into a bourgeois Jewish family in Vienna, she was not only the legendary actress who played “Mutter Courage”, she was also an antifascist activist from the 1920s onward, the unconventional wife of Bertolt Brecht and, after the war, Artistic Director of the world-famous Berliner Ensemble, with which she wanted to make the world a more humane place.