BRECHTS DREIGROSCHENFILM

This spring has seen Brecht expert Joachim Lang realize his long-cherished dream of bringing Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s legendary The Threepenny Opera to the cinema screen in a unique and fascinating mix drawing on elements from their opera and the original novel as well as focusing on the film industry’s resistance to Brecht’s film treatment. Featuring a star ensemble including Lars Eidinger and Robert Stadlober as Brecht and Weill, Tobias Moretti as Macheath, Hannah Herzsprung as Polly and Joachim Król as Peachum, the film moves between the late Victorian London of gangster boss Mack the Knife and beggar king Peachum and the Berlin of the Roaring Twenties.