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The Threepenny Opera
“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.
Directed by Wolfgang Staudte, Heinz Willeg
58
User score
4 votes
Status
Released
Released
February 28, 1963
Runtime
2h 4m
Language
German
Top 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
Martin Berliner
Trauerweiden-Walter
June Ritchie
Marlene Warrlich
Hans W. Hamacher
Hans Reiser
Walter Feuchtenberg
Stanislav Ledinek
Max Strassberg
Stefan Wigger
Robert Manuel
Jürgen Feindt
