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The Threepenny Opera

L'opera de quat'sous

  • 1931
  • Germany / United States
  • feature film
  • 107 min. (2940 m.)
  • Location shooting / Berlin story line

Cast

Actor/-ess
Florelle (Polly Peachum)
Albert Préjean (Mackie)
Gaston Modot (Peachum)
Margo Lion (Jenny)
Wladimir Sokoloff (Smith, geôlier)
Lucy de Matha (Mme Peachum)
Jacques Henley (Tiger-Brown)
Bill-Bocketts (Chanteur de rues)
Hermann Thimig (Pasteur)
Antonin Artaud (Nouveau mendiant)
Gaillard (Mendiant)
Marie-Antoinette Buzet (Fille à Turnbridge)
Arthur Duarte
Marcel Merminod
Pierre Léaud
Albert Broquin

Direction

Director
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Assistant director
Solange Bussy

Writing

Screenplay

Camera & Light

Director of photography
Fritz Arno Wagner
Assistant camera / focus puller
Carl Moeller
Walter Hrich
Still photographer
Rudolf Brix
Hans G. Casparius

Decor

Production design
Andrej Andrejew
Make-up artist
Paul Dannenberg
Costume design
Max Pretzfelder

Cutting & Mixing

Editing
Henri Rust
Assistant editor
H. Meller
Eugen Hrich
Sound
Adolf Jansen

Music

Music
Kurt Weill
Conductor
Theo Mackeben
Music-Production
Lewis Ruth
Lyrics
André Mauprey

Production

Producer
Seymour Nebenzahl
Unit production manager
Wilhelm Löwenberg
Location manager
Gustav Rathje