The 3 Penny Opera

  • Music
  • Crime
2/18/1931
112

Let the fantasy take you far, far away...

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.

Director:
G.W. Pabst
Writers:
Bertolt Brecht
Léo Lania
Ladislaus Vajda
Béla Balázs
    • prostitute
    • corruption
    • musical
    • victorian england
    • social satire
    • criminal underworld
    • stage play
    • beggar clan
    • brechtian theatre

    Cast

    • Rudolf Forster
      Mackie Messer
    • Carola Neher
      Polly
    • Reinhold Schünzel
      Tiger-Brown
    • Fritz Rasp
      Peachum
    • Valeska Gert
      Mrs. Peachum
    • Lotte Lenya
      Jenny
    • Hermann Thimig
      The Vicar
    • Ernst Busch
      The Street Singer
    • Vladimir Sokoloff
      Smith, the Jailer
    • Paul Kemp
      Mackie Messer's Gang Member
    • Gustav Püttjer
      Mackie Messer's Gang Member
    • Oskar Höcker
      Mackie Messer's Gang Member
    • Krafft-Raschig
      Mackie Messer's Gang Member
    • Herbert Grünbaum
      Filch
    • Sylvia Torff
      Whorehouse owner

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