MACK THE KNIFE - BRECHT'S THREEPENNY FILM

MACK THE KNIFE – BRECHT’S THREEPENNY FILM

MACK THE KNIFE - BRECHT'S THREEPENNY FILM

Director: Joachim Lang
Feature film | Germany | 2018
130 min | Dolby 5.1

55th Hof International Film Festival
2021
Retrospective Joachim Król

After the worldwide success of The Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht is unwilling to play by the rules of the film industry when it comes to adapting the material. His idea of the “Threepenny Film” is radical, uncompromising, political and pointed. The film industry is reluctant to accept this. While the battle between London gangster Macheath and the head of the begging mafia Peachum begins to take shape before the author’s eyes in his film version of the Threepenny Opera, Brecht seeks a public confrontation.

With BRITTA HAMMELSTEIN, CLAUDIA MICHELSEN, HANNAH HERZSPRUNG, JOACHIM KRÓL, LARS EIDINGER, ROBERT STADLOBER, TOBIAS MORETTI

Screenplay JOACHIM LANG, Cinematography DAVID SLAMA, Editing ALEXANDER DITTNER, Production design BENEDIKT HERFORTH, Costume design LUCIA FAUST, Music HEINZ KARL GRUBER, Production MICHAEL SOUVIGNIER, TILL DERENBACH