The 3 Penny Opera

Let the fantasy take you far, far away...

2/18/19311h 52min7.1/10(63 TMDB votes)

MusicCrime

Directed by G.W. Pabst

Plot

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'.

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Cast

Rudolf Forster

Mackie Messer

Carola Neher

Polly

Reinhold Schünzel

Tiger-Brown

Fritz Rasp

Peachum

Valeska Gert

Mrs. Peachum

Lotte Lenya

Jenny

Hermann Thimig

The Vicar

Ernst Busch

The Street Singer

Vladimir Sokoloff

Smith, the Jailer

Paul Kemp

Mackie Messer's Gang Member

Gustav Püttjer

Mackie Messer's Gang Member

Oskar Höcker

Mackie Messer's Gang Member

Krafft-Raschig

Mackie Messer's Gang Member

Herbert Grünbaum

Filch

Sylvia Torff

Whorehouse owner