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The 3 Penny Opera

Original title: Die 3 Groschen-Oper
  • 19311931
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 52m
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7.3/10
2.3K
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The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
ComedyCrimeDrama
In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'.In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'.In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
2.3K
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    • Georg Wilhelm Pabst
  • Writers
    • Bertolt Brecht(story)
    • Léo Lania(manuscript)
    • Ladislaus Vajda(manuscript)
  • Stars
    • Rudolf Forster
    • Lotte Lenya
    • Carola Neher
    • Georg Wilhelm Pabst
  • Writers
    • Bertolt Brecht(story)
    • Léo Lania(manuscript)
    • Ladislaus Vajda(manuscript)
  • Stars
    • Rudolf Forster
    • Lotte Lenya
    • Carola Neher
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 29User reviews
    • 33Critic reviews
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    The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
    Rudolf Forster in The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
    Rudolf Forster, Carola Neher, and Reinhold Schünzel in The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
    Rudolf Forster in The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
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    Rudolf Forster in The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
    The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
    Lotte Lenya in The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
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    Rudolf Forster
    Rudolf Forster
    • Mackie Messer
    Lotte Lenya
    Lotte Lenya
    • Jenny
    • (as Lotte Lenja)
    Carola Neher
    Carola Neher
    • Polly
    Reinhold Schünzel
    Reinhold Schünzel
    • Tiger-Brown
    Fritz Rasp
    Fritz Rasp
    • Peachum
    Valeska Gert
    Valeska Gert
    • Frau Peachum
    Hermann Thimig
    Hermann Thimig
    • Der Pfarrer
    Ernst Busch
    Ernst Busch
    • Der Straßensänger
    Vladimir Sokoloff
    Vladimir Sokoloff
    • Smith
    • (as Wladimir Sokolow)
    Paul Kemp
    Paul Kemp
    • Mackie Messers Platte
    Gustav Püttjer
    • Mackie Messers Platte
    Oskar Höcker
    • Mackie Messers Platte
    Krafft-Raschig
    Krafft-Raschig
    • Mackie Messers Platte
    • (as Kraft Raschig)
    Herbert Grünbaum
    • Filch
    Marcel Merminod
      Sylvia Torf
      Sylvia Torf
      • Brothel Owner
      • (uncredited)
        • Georg Wilhelm Pabst
      • Writers
        • Bertolt Brecht(story)
        • Léo Lania(manuscript)
        • Ladislaus Vajda(manuscript)
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      • Trivia
        The film was banned by the Nazi Party in 1933 and prints of the film were destroyed. The film was restored and reconstructed in the 1960s.
      • Quotes

        Peachum: You too wish to be part of this splendid occasion. You, poorest of the poor, who'd long ago have perished in the sewers of Turnbridge if I hadn't spent sleepless nights devising a way to wring a few pence out of your poverty. For I've shown that the rich of this world have no qualms about causing misery but can't bear the sight of it. They have hard hearts but weak nerves. Well, we won't spare their nerves today! By the thousands we'll tear at their nerves, for our rags do not conceal our wounds!

      • Connections
        Alternate-language version of The Threepenny Opera (1931)
      • Soundtracks
        Die Dreigroschenoper
        Composed by Kurt Weill

        Libretto by Bertolt Brecht

      User reviews29

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      7/10
      lumbering movie but great visually
      The movie isn't a filmed version of the stage play and doesn't pretend to be. It moves along at a sometimes creaky, sometimes disjointed pace. And when does it take place? There was no coronation of anybody in Victorian England, and I don't believe they had telephones. But those are quibbles. The thrill of it is the art direction - the expressionistic sets, set decoration and costumes are wonders. All those steep staircases! Those "London" streets! Terrific.

      I wonder if some of the disjointed sequences and odd pacing of the movie result from the fact that it's a reconstruction, the original having gone the way of all entartete art in Nazi Germany.
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      • buxtonhill
      • May 4, 2011

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      • Release date
        • October 19, 1956 (East Germany)
        • Germany
        • German
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      • Filming locations
        • Staaken Studio, Berlin, Germany
      • Production companies
        • Tobis Filmkunst
        • Nero-Film AG
        • Warner Bros.
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      • 1 hour 52 minutes
        • Black and White

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