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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
Mack the Knife – Brecht's Threepenny Film. 2hrs 10mins. Directed by. Joachim Lang. Featuring. Lars Eidinger, Tobias Moretti, Hannah Herzsprung. Film Language. German. Showtimes. Presented by the Goethe Institute Boston.
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film is a 2018 German-Belgian directed by Joachim A. Lang. The film is intended to represent an attempt to realize Bertolt Brecht's artistically and politically radical film adaptation concept for his 1931 movie " The Threepenny Opera ".
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
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 sought to make a socially conscious film, but the studio wanted a crowd pleaser. This fantastical and theatrical satire dramatizes his valiant attempt to adapt his opera to the screen.
A socialist critique on capitalism, staged as a conflict between Mack the Knife, a London gangster, and Peachum, the head of the beggars' mafia. And Brecht does not bow down; he takes the producers to court in order to prove that the moneyed interests are prevailing over his right as an author--and the right of the audience.
Provocative, outrageously colorful, and merging fact with the fictional and the visionary, Brecht's "true" Threepennyfilm comes to life before the author's eyes. A film that was never...
