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Genres: Documentary, Music, History

In his inspired, inspiring essayistic documentary “Theater of War,” the filmmaker John Walter jumps from art to history and politics and back again, from the theater of the streets to the theater of the stage, without pause. That makes the movie, which follows a Public Theater production in Central Park of Bertolt Brecht’s epic play “Mother Courage and Her Children,” tough to summarize, which is part of its appeal. Because while the movie is about a particular staging of “Mother Courage,” it is also about the war in Iraq, theater (and bicycle riding) as social protest, the necessity and futility of art, and the agonizing human failing that Mother Courage gives voice to in “The Song of the Great Capitulation.” “Theater of War” is also, as a matter of course, about Brecht.

He wrote the landmark “Mother Courage” in the late ’30s while in exile in Scandinavia, having left Germany in 1933 soon after Hitler was appointed chancellor. Set against the Thirty Years’ War and opening in 1624, the play pivots on Mother Courage, a war profiteer who sells goods to soldiers from her canteen wagon. (“Boots they will march in until they die!”) In time she loses her three children to the war, yet she holds on to her wagon, which she drags behind her like a coffer (or coffin). Though it is often described as a war play, the theater critic and Brecht translator Eric Bentley has countered that it is actually a business play. The business of mounting a play is also part of what interests Mr. Walter, who directed the highly recommended 2002 documentary “How to Draw a Bunny,” about Ray Johnson, the collagist and pioneer of mail art. — Manohla Dargis

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