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
![Ralf Drexler](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/411/161411678_28e3cf.jpg)
Ralf Drexler
West Germany
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Tatort (1970) (series)
![Moritz Führmann](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/807/168807171_iao9m0.jpg)
Moritz Führmann
West Germany
Best movies:
The German Lesson (2019)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Harter Brocken - Der Waffendeal (2021) (TV movie)
![Dominik Weber](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/654/160654184_5fbc83.jpg)
Dominik Weber
West Germany
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
The Painted Bird (2019)
Der Zürich-Krimi (2016) (series)
![Morgane Ferru](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/881/160881064_cbc43f.jpg)
Morgane Ferru
Switzerland
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Praxis mit Meerblick (2017) (series)
And Tomorrow We Will Be Dead (2021)
![Maximilian Scheidt](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/744/159744151_363f77.jpg)
Maximilian Scheidt
West Germany
Best movies:
![Sarah Bauerett](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/167/363/167363595_30bbed.jpg)
Sarah Bauerett
West Germany
Best movies:
The Teachers' Lounge (2023)
Wunderschön (2022)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Benno Steinegger
Best movies:
A Hidden Life (2019)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)