The 3 Penny Opera

Overview

In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.

Directed by G.W. Pabst

Top cast

Rudolf Forster

Mackie Messer

Carola Neher

Polly

Reinhold Schünzel

Tiger-Brown

Fritz Rasp

Peachum

V

Valeska Gert

Mrs. Peachum

Lotte Lenya

Jenny

Hermann Thimig

The Vicar

E

Ernst Busch

The Street Singer

Vladimir Sokoloff

Smith, the Jailer

Paul Kemp

Mackie Messer's Gang Member

Gustav Püttjer

Mackie Messer's Gang Member

O

Oskar Höcker

Mackie Messer's Gang Member

K

Krafft-Raschig

Mackie Messer's Gang Member

H

Herbert Grünbaum

Filch

S

Sylvia Torff

Whorehouse owner

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