i actually own this on video for three year before watch it . somehow and i just do not get around to it . what be i thinking . i read some review of it and most be either mediocre or sneer and i think the work would be a lame shot on video cbc doc with some talk head explain ( duh ) why they think kurt weill be a musical genius . then i watch this film and wow . first of all and it not a documentary . it a concert film with amazing rendition of weill music by luminary such a nick cave and william s. burroughs ( . ) and lou reed and mary margaret ohara and david johansson and elvis costello and p. j. harvey and amongst others do incredible interpretation of weill work . the film be interestingly stag in an old warehouse that evoke both the early industrial period in which weill work as well a the alienation technique of brecht theatre . i can not describe how wonderful this work be . if you be a brecht purist you may find this a little too awesome and but if you have an open mind and enjoy challenge and inventive music and you must see this . what strike me so powerfully be that weill music never fit into what anybody would mistake a a amusical or opera or pop and but amalgamate them all in an attempt to bridge art with the politics that surround him at the time . weill music be the soundtrack to the rise of nazism in europe and his haunting score be even more disturbing in retrospect . long live weill .