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
![Lars Eidinger](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/790/168790969_c8frr1.jpg)
Lars Eidinger
West Germany
Best movies:
Dying (2024)
Never Look Away (2018)
Sense8 (2015) (series)
![Tobias Moretti](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/726/166726591_333c41.jpg)
Tobias Moretti
Austria
Best movies:
Maximilian & Marie De Bourgogne (2017) (series)
Dem Mörder verfallen - Eine Frau in Gefahr (1999) (TV movie)
Das ewige Lied (1997) (TV movie)
![Hannah Herzsprung](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/278/278660_acac5c.jpg)
Hannah Herzsprung
West Germany
Best movies:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
The Reader (2008)
Who Am I - No System Is Safe (2014)
![Joachim Król](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/159/775/159775606_91ea22.jpg)
Joachim Król
West Germany
Best movies:
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV movie)
Gloomy Sunday (1999)
Run Lola Run (1998)
![Claudia Michelsen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/829/157829456_c16907.jpg)
Claudia Michelsen
East Germany
Best movies:
Ku'damm 56 (2016) (series)
Ku'damm 59 (2018) (series)
The Same Sky (2017) (series)
![Britta Hammelstein](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/458/160458082_10a23a.jpg)
Britta Hammelstein
West Germany
Best movies:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
The Captain (2017)
Free Fall (2013)
![Robert Stadlober](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/750/168750251_mqf5rb.jpg)
Robert Stadlober
Austria
Best movies:
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
A Whole Life (2023)
Diplomacy (2014)
![Jesse Albert](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/238/165238458_bf27a6.jpg)
Jesse Albert
West Germany
Best movies:
Duell der Brüder - Die Geschichte von Adidas und Puma (2016) (TV movie)
Rheingold (2022)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
![Peri Baumeister](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/169/190/169190342_uenfrq.jpg)
Peri Baumeister
West Germany
Best movies:
![Marcus Calvin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/501/166501203_6f274a.jpg)
Marcus Calvin
West Germany
Best movies:
Curveball (2020)
The Magic Voyage (1992)
Off Beat (2004)
Truus de Boer
Best movies:
Painkillers (2014)
Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
![Daniel Drewes](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/167/048/167048160_964c9c.jpg)
Daniel Drewes
West Germany
Best movies:
Sources of Life (2013)
Die Anruferin (2007)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
![Meike Droste](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/412/161412496_78f0cf.jpg)
Meike Droste
West Germany
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Ein starkes Team (1994) (series)
![Robert Dölle](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/136/160136195_483508.jpg)
Robert Dölle
West Germany
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Nichts mehr wie vorher (2013) (TV movie)
The White Massai (2005)
![Hanno Friedrich](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/307/160307903_638a88.jpg)
Hanno Friedrich
West Germany
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Frühling (2011) (series)
![Godehard Giese](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/168/731/168731716_44ypfa.jpg)
Godehard Giese
West Germany
Best movies:
The Same Sky (2017) (series)
Match (2012)
The Book Thief (2013)
![Hendrik Heutmann](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/855/166855749_57fa64.jpg)
Hendrik Heutmann
West Germany
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
The Last Execution (2021)
![Christian Hockenbrink](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/807/160807250_7348d8.jpg)
Christian Hockenbrink
West Germany
Best movies:
Besondere Schwere der Schuld (2014) (TV movie)
Because You're Mine (2019) (TV movie)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
![Dirk Ossig](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/160/999/160999192_4756e4.jpg)
Dirk Ossig
West Germany
Best movies:
Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (2016)
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Max Raabe
West Germany
Best movies:
Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film (2018)
Invincible (2001)
Berlin, I Love You (2019)