The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
Music · Crime
Overview
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
Cast
- Rudolf Forster as Mackie Messer
- Carola Neher as Polly
- Reinhold Schünzel as Tiger-Brown
- Fritz Rasp as Peachum
- Valeska Gert as Mrs. Peachum
- Lotte Lenya as Jenny
- Hermann Thimig as The Vicar
- Ernst Busch as The Street Singer
- Vladimir Sokoloff as Smith, the Jailer
- Paul Kemp as Mackie Messer's Gang Member