How Much Is Your Iron?

How Much Is Your Iron?

How Much Is Your Iron?

How Much Is Your Iron?

How Much Is Your Iron?

Overview

A sinister customer purchases iron from Sven'son, whose neighbour, a tobaccon'st, is later murdered. The customer returns and barters for iron with cigars (Sven'son's weakness). Another neighbour is murdered but Sven'son continues to supply the customer — after all, it's business. Finally, brandishing machine guns, the customer deman's: "How much is your iron?" and the iron-dealer stammers "Nothing".

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Details

  • Genre: Adaptation (Stage & Screen), Period
  • Time Period: 1930s

Authors

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), playwright, poet and director, was born in Augsburg, Germany in February 1898. He established himself as a playwright during the 1920s and early 1930s with plays such as Baal, Man is Man, The Threepenny Opera and The Mother. In 1933, as Hitler came ...
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