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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. The film industry picks up the scent and seeks to make the master direct a film version of his "play with music".
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- Biography, Drama
- Joachim Lang
- 2018-09-13
Feb 2, 1990 · There is a sense in which Brecht might have enjoyed "Mack the Knife," Menahem Golan's film version of "The Threepenny Opera," which Brecht wrote and Kurt Weill composed the songs for in 1929. This entire movie is an alienating device, keeping us constantly aware that we are watching a movie - a bad movie.
Mack the Knife: Brecht's Threepenny Film. A playwright tries to adapt his opera satire for the cinema in the early 1930s.
- Drama
- Lars Eidinger
- Joachim Lang
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film. Summaries. 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.
Directed by. Joachim Lang. Featuring. Lars Eidinger, Tobias Moretti, Hannah Herzsprung. Film Language. German. Showtimes. 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.
Joachim Lang. 2018. Germany. German with English subtitles. 130 minutes. After the premiere of Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann, and Kurt Weill’s Threepenny Opera in 1928, the work seemed destined for the silver screen: Brecht wanted to make a film, and a studio was eager to capitalize.
Director. Joachim Lang. Synopsis. 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...
