The Threepenny Opera

The Threepenny Opera

124 mins | Drama, Comedy, Music | Feb. 28, 1963

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.

The Threepenny Opera

124 mins | Drama, Comedy, Music | Feb. 28, 1963

The Threepenny Opera
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.
IMDb rating 5.2
Producers Kurt Ulrich Filmproduktion, C.E.C. Films
Original title Die Dreigroschenoper
Directors Wieland Liebske, Wolfgang Staudte
Writers Günther Weisenborn, Wolfgang Staudte, Bertolt Brecht

Cast

Curd Jürgens

as Macheath, genannt Mackie Messer

Hildegard Knef

as Spelunken-Jenny

Gert Fröbe

as Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum

Hilde Hildebrand

as Cella Peachum, seine Frau

Lino Ventura

as Brown, Polizeichef von London

Walter Giller

as Bettler Filch

Henning Schlüter

as Pastor Kimball

Siegfried Wischnewski

as Münz-Matthias

Sammy Davis Jr.

as Moritatensänger

Martin Berliner

as Trauerweiden-Walter