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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 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 ".
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.
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.
Mack the Knife: Brecht's Threepenny Film 2018 2 hr. 10 min. Drama List Reviews 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. 2hrs 10mins. Directed by. Joachim Lang. Featuring. Lars Eidinger, Tobias Moretti, Hannah Herzsprung. Film Language. German. Showtimes. Presented by the Goethe Institute Boston.
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