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.

• Hallelujah-Film GmbH
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder
• Sigi Graue
• Margarethe von Trotta
• Günther Neutze
• Hanna Schygulla
• Marian Seidowsky
• Irmgard Paulis
• Wilmut Borell