Director - Volker Schlöndorff
Script - Bertolt Brecht, Volker Schlöndorff
Camera - Dietrich Lohmann
Music - Klaus Doldinger
With - Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sigi Graue, Margarethe von Trotta, Hanna Schygulla
- Helmut Haffner, Hans Prescher, Volker Schlöndorff
Production - Hessischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Hallelujah Film

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.