The Threepenny Opera
Film1963124 min5.8/10 on TMDB
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Directed by Wolfgang Staudte
The marvelous Mack-The-Knife musical is cutting up on the screen now!
The story
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
Cast & crew
Curd JürgensMacheath, genannt Mackie Messer
Hildegard KnefSpelunken-Jenny
Gert FröbeJonathan Jeremiah Peachum
Hilde HildebrandCella Peachum, seine Frau
Lino VenturaBrown, Polizeichef von London
Walter GillerBettler Filch
Henning SchlüterPastor Kimball
Siegfried WischnewskiMünz-Matthias
Sammy Davis Jr.MoritatensängerMartin Berliner
Martin BerlinerTrauerweiden-WalterExplore the crew
- Director
- Wolfgang Staudte
- Writer
- Wolfgang Staudte
- Writer
- Bertolt Brecht
- Producer
- Kurt Ulrich
- Writer
- Günther Weisenborn
- Editor
- Wolfgang Wehrum
- Director of Photography
- Roger Fellous