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The Threepenny Opera (1963)
Directed by Wolfgang Staudte
“The marvelous Mack-The-Knife musical is cutting up on the screen now!”
Music, Drama · 2h 04m
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
Curd Jürgens
Macheath, genannt Mackie Messer
Hildegard Knef
Spelunken-Jenny
Gert Fröbe
Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum
Hilde Hildebrand
Cella Peachum, seine Frau
Lino Ventura
Brown, Polizeichef von London
Walter Giller
Bettler Filch
Henning Schlüter
Pastor Kimball
Siegfried Wischnewski
Münz-Matthias
Sammy Davis Jr.
Moritatensänger
M
Martin Berliner
Trauerweiden-Walter
J
June Ritchie
M
Marlene Warrlich
Crew
- Director
- Wolfgang Staudte
- Writer
- Günther Weisenborn, Wolfgang Staudte, Bertolt Brecht
- Director of Photography
- Roger Fellous
- Editor
- Wolfgang Wehrum
- Producer
- Kurt Ulrich
Details
- Original title
- Die Dreigroschenoper
- Release date
- 1963-02-28
- Runtime
- 2h 04m
- Genres
- Music, Drama
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany, France
- Production
- Kurt Ulrich Filmproduktion, C.E.C. Films