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The Threepenny Opera

1931, Movie, NR, 113 mins

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Less revered today than the Bertolt Brecht play or the Kurt Weill songs, G.W. Pabst's film version of "The Threepenny Opera" is still a fine example of pre-Hitler German filmmaking. In the German version available on videocassette (a French version exists with a different cast, while the planned English version was never completed), Rudolf Forster plays the infamous Mackie Messer, or Mack the Knife, an underworld gangster of the 1890s whose territory is London. A dashing and... read more leave a comment
Year: 1931
Rated NR

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Cast
Rudolf Forster: Mackie Messer
Carola Neher: Polly
Reinhold Schunzel: Tiger Brown
Fritz Rasp: Peachum
Valeska Gert: Mrs. Peachum
Lotte Lenya: Jenny

 

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