Directed by:
Joachim LangCinematography:
David SlámaComposer:
Walter MairCast:
Lars Eidinger, Tobias Moretti, Hannah Herzsprung, Joachim Król, Claudia Michelsen, Britta Hammelstein, Robert Stadlober, Jesse Albert, Peri Baumeister (more)Plots(1)
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. He wants to make a completely new kind of film, and he knows that the production company, concerned only with success at the box office, will never agree to it. While the film version of The Threepenny Opera takes shape before the author's eyes as a conflict between Macheath, a London gangster, and Peachum, the head of the beggars' mafia, Brecht seeks to make the dispute public. He takes the production company to court in order to prove that the moneyed interests are prevailing over his right as an author. A poet directs reality: that's never happened before! (Filmfest München)
(more)Cast
Christian Redl
West Germany
Best movies:
Downfall (2004)
Lea (1996)
Das jüngste Gericht (2008) (TV movie)
Bertolt Brecht (a.f.)
German Empire
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018) - a.f.
Filip Hellemans
Belgium
Best movies:
Blind Spot (2017)
Tench (2019)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Dick Carlier
Best movies:
Admiral (2015)
The Miniaturist (2017) (series)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Henry Buchmann
West Germany
Best movies:
Brimstone (2016)
My Blind Date with Life (2017)
Iceman (2017)
Johannes Jannasch
Germany
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Die Bergretter (2009) (series)
Raiko Küster
Germany
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Stromberg - Der Film (2014)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Paul Schlase
Best movies:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
The Girl and Death (2012)
Marian Meder
West Germany
Best movies:
The Albanian (2010)
The Most Beautiful Girl in The World (2018)
Pope Joan (2009)
Mateusz Dopieralski
Poland
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Sarajevo (2014) (TV movie)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Vilmar Bieri
West Germany
Best movies:
Free Fall (2013)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
The Good Neighbour (2011)
Markus Tomczyk
West Germany
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
War Horse (2011)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Hanna Plaß
UK
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Harter Brocken - Der Waffendeal (2021) (TV movie)
Praxis mit Meerblick (2017) (series)
Guido Lambrecht
East Germany
Best movies:
Goethe! (2010)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Benjamin Höppner
Best movies:
In Darkness (2011)
Der Turm (2012) (TV movie)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Rainer Laupichler
West Germany
Best movies:
Two Brothers (2004)
Because You're Mine (2019) (TV movie)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Gerrit Jansen
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Josef Hofmann
German Empire
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Anton Weber
Germany
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Wendy (2017)
3 Türken & ein Baby (2015)
Martin Thiel
West Germany
Best movies: