Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
as Baal
Sigi Graue
as Ekart
Margarethe von Trotta
as Sophie
Günther Neutze
as Nech
Hanna Schygulla
as Luise
Marian Seidowsky
as Johannes
Irmgard Paulis
as Johanna
Wilmut Borell
as Mjurk
Christine Schuberth
as Stripperin Sabitka
Walter Sedlmayr
as Anwalt Pschierer
Günther Kaufmann
as Kutscher Orgauer
Miriam Spoerri
as Emilie Mech
