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Published. 31 August 1928. ( 1928-08-31) " Mack the Knife " or " The Ballad of Mack the Knife " (German: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer") is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their 1928 music drama The Threepenny Opera (German: Die Dreigroschenoper ). The song tells of a knife-wielding criminal of the London ...
Oct 8, 2020 · Feature film, dir. by Joachim A. Lang. Germany, 2018, 129 min. LITFILM 2020: Provocative, outrageously colorful and merging fact with fiction, Mack the Knife is about a film which was never made. Asked by the film industry to direct his phenomenally successful Threepenny Opera, German playwright Bertolt Brecht refuses to play by the rules.
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film: Directed by Joachim Lang. With Lars Eidinger, Tobias Moretti, Hannah Herzsprung, Joachim Król. Against many odds, Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera" becomes a phenomenal success. The film industry picks up the scent and seeks to make the master direct a film version of his "play with music".
Following the phenomenal success of “The Threepenny Opera”, the film industry wants to win over the celebrated author. But Bertolt Brecht is not prepared to play by their rules. His concept of the “Threepenny Film” is radical, uncompromising, political, and incisive.
The whole film alternates real life (as a biographic movie) and the ideas Brecht had for the script of his intended adaptation to cinema (in a bright musical). While the text is brilliant, including Brecht's writings, art direction and cinematography are gorgeous, the ironic and fierce songs are very good, and all actors and director did a ...
Following the phenomenal success of “The Threepenny Opera”, the film industry wants to win over the celebrated author. But Bertolt Brecht is not prepared to play by their rules. His concept of the “Threepenny Film” is radical, uncompromising, political, and incisive.
Director Joachim Lang connects his interpretation of the Threepenny story with the genesis of Brecht’s exposé for a Threepenny Film that has never been on screen. It takes the audience to Berlin during the Roaring Twenties in a framework plot that shows how the artists attempt to shoot a movie while confronting the film industry.
