The 3 Penny Opera

Name: The 3 Penny Opera
Genre: Music, Crime
Released: 1931
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 7.103

1931 · 112 min

Music · Crime

★ 7.1

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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'.

Crew

Director G.W. Pabst
Screenplay Béla Balázs
Screenplay Ladislaus Vajda
Screenplay Léo Lania
Story Bertolt Brecht
Director of Photography Fritz Arno Wagner

Cast

Rudolf Forster
Mackie Messer
Carola Neher
Polly
Reinhold Schünzel
Tiger-Brown
Fritz Rasp
Peachum
V
Valeska Gert
Mrs. Peachum
Lotte Lenya
Jenny
Hermann Thimig
The Vicar
E
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

Crew

Director — G.W. Pabst
Screenplay — Béla Balázs
Screenplay — Ladislaus Vajda
Screenplay — Léo Lania
Story — Bertolt Brecht
Director of Photography — Fritz Arno Wagner

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