The Threepenny Opera (1931 film)

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The Threepenny Opera
Directed by G. W. Pabst
Produced by Seymour Nebenzal
Written by Béla Balázs
Leo Lania
Laszlo Vajda
Starring Rudolf Forster
Margo Lion
Carola Neher
Lotte Lenya
Reinhold Schünzel
Music by Kurt Weill
Cinematography Fritz Arno Wagner
Editing by Henri Rust
Release date(s) 19 February 1931 (Germany)
17 May 1931 (USA)
Country Germany
Language German
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The Threepenny Opera (German: Die 3groschenoper) is a 1931 German musical film directed by G. W. Pabst. The film is based on a 1928 musical theatre variation of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht. As was usual in the early sound film era, Pabst also directed a French language version of the film, L'Opéra de quar'sous, with some variation of plot details.

The Threepenny Opera differs in significant respects from the play, and the internal timeline is somewhat vague. The whole of society is presented as corrupt in one form or another.

Macheath is presented as an anti-hero and is in league with Tiger Brown, Chief of Police, who is in charge of the coronation of an unspecified queen.

Macheath marries Polly Peachum, daughter of Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, but still visits the brothel on Turnmill Street. Peachum is displeased at his daughter's marriage, and threatens Brown with disruption of the coronation - arranging for a protest march of beggars and others. Macheath is arrested, after a rooftop escape from the brothel where he had gone to visit Jenny, his former lover, as it is raided, imprisoned and sentenced to death.

Polly, meanwhile, buys a bank, and runs it with Macheath's henchmen, making him a bank director, and she then arranges surety for Macheath to leave prison. This causes a change of heart by her parents - her father tries to stop the protest march but fails.

Jenny visits the prison, and aids Macheath's escape: he makes his way to the bank, where he discovers his new status. Brown, whose police career is ruined by the demonstration, and Peachum, also come to the bank and agree to link up.

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