The Threepenny Opera

Cast

Actor/-ess

Curd Jürgens (Captain Macheath)

Hildegard Knef (Jenny Diver)

Gert Fröbe (J.J. Peachum)

Hilde Hildebrand (Mrs. Celia Peachum)

June Ritchie (Polly Peachum)

Lino Ventura ('Tiger' Brown)

Marlene Warrlich (Lucy Brown)

Walter Giller (Beggar Filch)

Hans W. Hamacher (Constable Smith)

Henning Schlüter (Reverend Kimball)

Sammy Davis jr. (Moritatensänger)

Hans Reiser (Ballad Singer)

Siegfried Wischnewski (Matthias)

Walter Feuchtenberg (Jakob)

Stanislav Ledinek (Robert)

Martin Berliner (Wally the Weeper)

Max Strassberg (Ede)

Stefan Wigger (Jimmy)

Robert Manuel (Hangman)

Jürgen Feindt (Hangman)

Adeline Wagner (Susy)

Erna Haffner (A Prostitute)

Clessia Wade (A Prostitute)

Jacqueline Pierreux (A Prostitute)

Direction

Director

Wolfgang Staudte

Assistant director

Wieland Liebske

Writing

Screenplay

Wolfgang Staudte

Günther Weisenborn

Based on

Bertolt Brecht (play)

Kurt Weill (play)

Camera & Light

Director of photography

Roger Fellous

Assistant camera / focus puller

Hugo Schott

Karl Breselow

Georg Mondi

Decor

Production design

Hein Heckroth

Friedhelm Boehm

Gerd Kraus

Prop master

Horst Mischke

Helmuth Stellmach

Make-up artist

Fredy Arnold

Jutta Stroppe

Costume design

Hein Heckroth

Friedhelm Boehm

Gerd Kraus

Wardrobe

Hermann Belitz

Charlotte Jungmann

Cutting & Mixing

Editing

Wolfgang Wehrum

Assistant editor

Lilo Schumacher

Barbara Möller

Sound

Fritz Schwarz

Hans Löhmer

Choreography

Dick Price

Music

Music

Kurt Weill

Conductor

Peter Sandloff

Production

Producer

Kurt Ulrich

Line producer

Heinz Willeg

Location manager

Karl Helmer

Erwin Dräger

Production manager

Hildegard Samson

Companies

Production company

Kurt Ulrich Film GmbH

Comptoir dExpansion Cinématographique (C.E.C)