The Threepenny Opera

The marvelous Mack-The-Knife musical is cutting up on the screen now!

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.

• Release date
• February 28, 1963
• Runtime
• 124 min
• Genres
• Music, Drama
• Director
• Wolfgang Staudte

Cast

Curd Jürgens Macheath, genannt Mackie Messer Hildegard Knef Spelunken-Jenny Gert Fröbe Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum Hilde Hildebrand Cella Peachum, seine Frau Lino Ventura Brown, Polizeichef von London Walter Giller Bettler Filch Henning Schlüter Pastor Kimball Siegfried Wischnewski Münz-Matthias