Rhombus Media and ARTE/ZDF-German Television Network, VHS (NTSC), color, in English and German with English subtitles (1996), 84:00.
Credits below.
| Time | Description |
| 0:00 | Credits. Photo of Eisler with voice-over. |
| 1:00 | Woman sings Eisler's cabaret song, "In Praise of Communism" (text by Bertolt Brecht) |
| 2:15 | More credits. Scenes of industry with workers playing instruments in the metal-working factory. |
| 2:45 | Interviews with people who knew Eisler. |
| 3:50 | Footage of Eisler reporting before the House Un-American Affairs Committee |
| 4:20 | Performance of the Theme and Variations, from Piano Pieces for Children, op. 31; photos and voice-over give Eisler biography |
| 4:50 | Interview with Georg Eisler, artist, son of Eisler's first wife, Charlotte |
| 5:50 | Scenes of battle in WWI; Eisler (voice-over) describes his war experience and his growing socialist consciousness |
| 7:15 | Interview with Georg Knepler, musicologist, describing the socialist literature that flourished after the October Revolution |
| 8:05 | Interview with Lulla Adler Rosenfeld, writer |
| 8:20 | Eisler reporting before a Congressional Committee |
| 9:10 | Voice-over relates Eisler's relationship to Schoenberg while pianist performs the Intermezzo from Eisler's Sonata for Piano, op. 1 (1923) |
| 10:00 | Interview with Stephan Hermlin, writer, who explains Eisler's place among Schoenberg's students more fully |
| 11:00 | Interview with HK Gruber, singer/conductor, who describes Eisler's activities with the working class |
| 11:50 | Performance of "The Ballad of Nigger Jim," op. 18 |
| 14:20 | Interview with Gisela May, actress/singer |
| 15:00 | Footage of socialist parades; voice-over speaks to Eisler's belief that the composer must be an activist |
| 15:30 | Interview with Knepler |
| 16:00 | Interview with Hilde Eisler, Eisler's sister-in-law |
| 16:20 | Footage from Ernst Busch, The Secret Mobilization (1930). Chorus sings. |
| 18:45 | Interview with Eberhard Rebling, musician, who describes seeing Busch and Eisler perform |
| 20:15 | Knepler discusses Eisler and Brecht's collaboration |
| 20:55 | Footage from Kuhle Wampe (1931), an Eisler/Brecht film |
| 21:20 | Interview with Lou Eisler Fischer, Eisler's second wife |
| 21:55 | Performance of song, "Supply and Demand" from Die Massnahme (1930), text by Bertolt Brecht |
| 24:50 | Interview with Wolf Biermann, poet/writer |
| 25:25 | Scene from Kuhle Wampe |
| 26:10 | Interview with Georg Eisler; Hermlin and Rebling discuss the uses to which Eisler's music was put |
| 27:00 | Interview with Mordecai Bauman, singer |
| 27:30 | Performance of "Vorwärts! und nie vergessen" along with footage of socialist marches |
| 29:35 | Interview with Jürgen Schebera, Eisler biographer |
| 30:05 | Performance of Eisler's "Battlesong against Fascism" (1932); footage of Hitler motorcade |
| 30:25 | Knepler discusses Eisler's experience in Hitler's Vienna |
| 31:20 | Performance of the "Song of a German Mother" |
| 32:50 | Footage of New York City; interview with Lou Eisler and with Bauman about Eisler's American experience |
| 35:10 | Footage of Los Angeles, photo of Eisler at his LA home |
| 35:50 | Scenes from None but the Lonely Heart, directed by Clifford Odets with music by Eisler |
| 36:00 | Interview with Norman Lloyd, actor/director, and with Hilde Eisler |
| 37:20 | Lou Eisler discusses Hollywood musicians, mostly European émigrés |
| 38:10 | Lloyd discusses Eisler's social circle in LA; Bess Boyle, writer, describes Eisler's winning personality at social gatherings |
| 39:35 | Recording of "The Invigorating Effects of Money" sung by Hanns Eisler |
| 40:35 | Georg Eisler describes his father's amusing personality when he was with crowds |
| 42:00 | Performance of a anti-war song |
| 44:00 | Interview with Lulla Rosenfeld recalling Eisler's relief at the end of the war |
| 45:00 | News story about the House of Representatives' Un-American Affairs Committee, interviewing J. Edgar Hoover |
| 45:35 | Lou Eisler describes Eisler's loyalty to his brother Gerhard, who had been acused of being a Communist agent |
| 46:45 | Hilde Eisler, Georg Eisler and Bauman describe the situation of the Eisler brothers, both of whom had been denounced by their sister |
| 48:10 | Footage of Eisler before the House U.A. Committee |
| 49:35 | Interview with Ring Lardner, Jr., screenwriter |
| 50:00 | More footage of Eisler |
| 51:15 | Interview with Ben Margolis, legal counsel; more footage of Eisler; interview with Bess Boyle |
| 52:45 | Newsreel of the Eislers leaving America |
| 53:20 | Performance of Moment Musical (1947) |
| 55:10 | Performance of the East German National Anthem by Eisler; footage of war-torn Germany |
| 57:00 | Interview with Manfred Wekwerth, theater director; interview with Gisela May |
| 58:00 | Footage of Russian newsreel from 1 May 1950; marches in Berlin; interviews with Biermann and Knepler |
| 59:40 | Footage of Eisler teaching at the Conservatory in East Berlin; more interview with Knepler |
| 1:01:30 | Interview with Wekwerth and Lou Eisler about Eisler's libretto Johann Faustus |
| 1:02:40 | Footage of Berlin, 17 June 1953 |
| 1:03:20 | Performance of "The Flower Garden" |
| 1:05:15 | Gisela May, Schebera, and Wekwerth describe Eisler's unhappy life during the mid-'50s, his drinking habits |
| 1:07:05 | Performance of "Sadness" from Ernste Gesange (1961/62) |
| 1:09:00 | Interview with Stephanie Eisler, Eisler's widow |
| 1:11:30 | Biermann discusses Eisler's declining health; he was deeply affected by the deaths of Brecht and of Stalin. |
| 1:12:30 | Stephanie Eisler continues |
| 1:13:10 | Performance of the Deutsche Symphonie (1930-1958) |
| 1:16:15 | Schebera discusses the tragedy of Eisler's generation in East Germany |
| 1:17:15 | Stephanie Eisler recounts the events preceding Eisler's death |
| 1:19:45 | Georg Eisler discusses the ceremony accompanying Eisler's official funeral |
| 1:20:25 | Footage of Eisler's funeral |
| 1:21:30 | Performance of "In Praise of Communism" |
| 1:22:40 | Credits |
| 1:24:20 | End |
Credits
Director: Larry Weinstein
Producers: Gabriele Faust and Niv Fichman
Writers: Larry Weinstein and Thomas Wallner
Associate producers: Daniel Iron and Barbara Willis Sweete
Performers:
Piano: Christoph Keller
Singers: Robyn Archer, Stefanie Wüst, HK Gruber, Gisela May, Carmen-Maja Antoni, Andreas Scheibner
Clarinet: Richard Stoltzman
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, conducted by HK Gruber
Berlin Rundfunkorchester and Choir, conducted by Dietrich Knothe