Gates of Hell

Duration: 40

Year Published: 1998

Creator: Green Valley Media

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: A pageant performance by hundreds of performers of the Bread and Puppet theater troupe, based on the poem "Hitler Chorale III" by Bertolt Brecht and performed in Glover, VT, in 1998. The troupe's director, Peter Schumann, compares the poem to the corrupting force of capitalism on humanity as exemplified by Nazi Germany and provides information about his choice and use of props.