Lars Eidinger
Bertolt Brecht
Search results
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.
- (690)
- Biography, Drama
- Joachim Lang
- 2018-09-13
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.
Mack the Knife: Brecht's Threepenny Film. A playwright tries to adapt his opera satire for the cinema in the early 1930s.
- Joachim Lang
- Lars Eidinger
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.
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.
Christian Redl. 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 ".
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.
