The Threepenny Opera

1931 [GERMAN]

Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Musical

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 86% · 6 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 86% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 2714 2.7K

prostitute corruption musical victorian england social satire criminal underworld

Plot summary

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'.

Director

Georg Wilhelm Pabst Photo
Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Top cast

Gustav Püttjer Photo
Gustav Püttjer as Mackie Messers Platte
Lotte Lenya Photo
Lotte Lenya as Jenny
Vladimir Sokoloff Photo
Vladimir Sokoloff as Smith
Reinhold Schünzel Photo
Reinhold Schünzel as Tiger-Brown
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951.69 MB
860*720
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles de  
23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
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1.71 GB
1280*1072
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles de  
23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 8 / 10

A Cynical Musical with Low-life Characters

In London, the rascal Mackie Messer (Rudolf Forster) is the king of the thieves and an irresistible pimp. When he meets Polly Peachum (Valeska Gert) on the street, he invites her for a drink and they marry with each other in the end of the night in a warehouse. When Polly's father Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum (Fritz Rasp) a.k.a. the king of the beggars learns about the marriage of his daughter, he presses the chief of police Jackie "Tiger" Brown (Reinhold Schünzel) to arrest his friend Mackie; otherwise he will send a great number of beggars to protest in the coronation of the queen. "Die 3 Groschen-Oper" is a cynical musical with low-life characters in the underground of London written by Bertold Brecht and directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. This film was released in Berlin on 19 February 1931 and I saw a DVD with a matrix that was restored in 2006 for the 75th anniversary of this film. In 1986, the Brazilian composer Chico Buarque de Holanda and the director Ruy Guerra released an adaptation of this musical with the successful "Ópera do Malandro", the most expensive Brazilian production until 1986, but without the credit to Bertold Brecht. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "A Ópera dos Três Vinténs" ("The Opera of Three Pennies")
Reviewed by buxtonhill 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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