Film · 1931

The 3 Penny Opera

Name: The 3 Penny Opera
Director: G.W. Pabst
Genre: Music, Crime
Released: 1931-02-18
Rating: 7.1

112 min · Directed by G.W. Pabst

Music Crime

7.163
ratings

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'.

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

O

Oskar Höcker

Mackie Messer's Gang Member

K

Krafft-Raschig

Mackie Messer's Gang Member

H

Herbert Grünbaum

Filch

S

Sylvia Torff

Whorehouse owner

Crew

Director: G.W. Pabst
Producer: Seymour Nebenzal
Writer: Bertolt Brecht, Béla Balázs, Ladislaus Vajda, Léo Lania
Editor: Jean Oser
Cinematography: Fritz Arno Wagner
Art Direction: Andrej Andrejew
Composer: Kurt Weill
Sound: Adolf Jansen
Costume: Max Pretzfelder
Makeup: Paul Dannenberg

Details

Studios: Nero-Film AG, Tobis Filmkunst
Countries: Germany
Languages: German
Release: February 18, 1931

Themes

prostitutecorruptionmusicalvictorian englandsocial satirecriminal underworldstage playbeggar clanbrechtian theatre

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