The Threepenny Opera

Music/Society, Germany 1931

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London, Soho, late 1920s: Mack the Knife (Rudolf Forster), boss of the London underworld and incorrigible womanizer, falls madly in love with the beautiful Polly Peachum (Carola Neher), daughter of the London beggar king. Despite her father's staunch opposition, he marries her the same night. Together with police chief Tiger-Brown (Reinhold Schünzel), Peachum (Fritz Rasp) then spins an intrigue to finally put Mack the Knife behind bars. Director G.W. Pabst staged Bertolt Brecht's world-famous play in 1931, despite a conflict between the production company and the author. This dispute attracted a great deal of attention then, as it does now, and was widely commented on in the press. Most recently, in 2018, the story of this trial was even filmed under the title Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film.
111 min
HD
FSK 16
Audio language:
German

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Director:

G.W. Pabst

Template:

Bertolt Brecht (Stage Play)

Composer:

Kurt Weill

Sound Design:

Adolf Jansen

Editor:

Jean Oser

Cast:

Rudolf Forster (Mackie Messer)

Carola Neher (Polly)

Reinhold Schünzel (Tiger-Brown)

Fritz Rasp (Peachum)

Valeska Gert (Mrs. Peachum)

Lotte Lenya (Jenny)

Paul Kemp (Mack the Knife's Gang Member)

Original title:

Die 3-Groschen-Oper

Original language:

German

Further titles:

Die Dreigroschenoper

Format:

1:1.19 HD, B/W

Age rating:

FSK 16

Audio language:

German