Lars Eidinger
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Sep 13, 2018 · 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.
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- Biography, Drama
- Joachim Lang
- 2018-09-13
Sep 13, 2018 · Overview. 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. Joachim Lang. Director, Screenplay.
Mack the Knife: Brecht's Threepenny Film 2018 2h 10m Drama List Reviews A playwright tries to adapt his opera satire for the cinema in the early 1930s.
- Drama
- Lars Eidinger
- Joachim Lang
Presented by the Goethe Institute Boston. Following the phenomenal worldwide success of The Threepenny Opera in 1928 in Berlin, cinema is trying to win over the author of the piece. But Bertolt Brecht is not willing to play by the film industry’s rules. His vision for the Threepenny Film is radical, uncompromising, political and pointed.
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". However, Brecht refuses to play by their rules.
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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 ...
