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The 3 Penny Opera

Die 3 Groschen-Oper

1931
Germany
feature film - Music
112 min.
Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess: Rudolf Forster (Mackie Messer); Carola Neher (Polly Peachum); Reinhold Schünzel (Polizeichef Tiger-Brown); Fritz Rasp (Bettlerkönig Peachum); Valeska Gert (Frau Peachum); Lotte Lenya (Dirne Jenny); Hermann Thimig (Pfarrer); Ernst Busch (Straßensänger); Vladimir Sokoloff (Smith); Paul Kemp (Verbrecher); Gustav Püttjer (Verbrecher); Oskar Höcker (Verbrecher); Krafft-Raschig (Verbrecher); Herbert Grünbaum (Filch); Sylvia Torff (Bordellbesitzerin)

Direction

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Assistant director: Mark Sorkin; Gerbert Rappaport

Writing

Screenplay: Léo Lania; Ladislaus Vajda; Béla Balázs

Based on: Bertolt Brecht (Play); Kurt Weill

Camera & Light

Director of photography: Fritz Arno Wagner

Assistant camera / focus puller: Carl Moeller; Walter Hrich

2nd Camera unit: Robert Baberske

Still photographer: Rudolf Brix; Hans G. Casparius (Werkfotos)

Decor

Production design: Andrej Andrejew

Make-up artist: Paul Dannenberg

Costume design: Max Pretzfelder

Cutting & Mixing

Editing: Hans Oser

Sound: Adolf Jansen

Sound assistant: H. Meller; Eugen Hrich

Music

Music: Kurt Weill

Conductor: Theo Mackeben

Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht

Production

Producer: Seymour Nebenzahl; Gus Schlesinger; Guido Bagier

Unit production manager: Wilhelm Löwenberg

Location manager: Gustav Rathje

Companies

Production company: Tonbild-Syndikat AG (Tobis); Warner Bros. Pictures GmbH

completed by: Nero-Film AG