The Threepenny Opera (1963)
Die Dreigroschenoper
The marvelous Mack-The-Knife musical is cutting up on the screen now!
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.
- Date of release
- 1963-02-28
- TMDB
- 5.8 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 2h 4m
- Genres
- Music, Drama
- Director
- Wolfgang Staudte
Casting
- 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
- Martin Berliner — Trauerweiden-Walter
- June Ritchie
- Marlene Warrlich
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