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The 3 Penny Opera is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst released in USA on 16 may 1931 with Rudolf Forster

The 3 Penny Opera (1931)

The 3 Penny Opera
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Released in USA 16 may 1931
Length 1h44
OriginGerman
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Musical,    Crime,    Romance
Rating71% 3.59523.59523.59523.59523.5952

The Threepenny Opera (German: Die 3-Groschen-Oper) is a 1931 German musical film directed by G. W. Pabst. It was produced by Seymour Nebenzal's Nero-Film for Tonbild-Syndikat AG (Tobis), Berlin and Warner Bros. Pictures GmbH, Berlin. The film is loosely based on the 1928 musical theatre success The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. As was usual in the early sound film era, Pabst also directed a French language version of the film, L'Opéra de quat'sous, with some variation of plot details (the French title literally translates as "the four penny opera"). A planned English version was not made. The two existing versions were released by The Criterion Collection on home video.

The Threepenny Opera differs in significant respects from the play and the internal timeline is somewhat vague. The whole of society is presented as corrupt in one form or another. Only some of the songs from the play are used, in a different order.

Synopsis

Macheath aka "Mack the Knife" ("Mackie Messer" in German) is presented as an antihero and is in league with Tiger Brown, Chief of Police, who is about to oversee the coronation of an unspecified queen.

Actors

Rudolf Forster

(Mackie Messer)Carola Neher

(Polly)Lotte Lenya

(Jenny)Fritz Rasp

(Peachum)Gustav Püttjer

(Mackie Messer's Gang Member)
And :
Hermann Thimig
Ernst Busch
Vladimir Nikolayevich Sokoloff
Margo Lion
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