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Georg W. Pabst - The Threepenny Opera [VHS] [1931]

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  • Actors: Rudolf Forster, Lotte Lenya, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel, Fritz Rasp
  • Directors: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
  • Writers: André Mauprey, Bertolt Brecht, Béla Balázs, John Gay, Ladislaus Vajda
  • Format: PAL, Subtitled
  • Language French, German
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Bfi Video
  • VHS Release Date: 6 Jul 1998
  • Run Time: 205 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CWSM
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,561 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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    #19 in  Video > Classic Films > Musicals > 1930s
    #32 in  Video > Classic Films > Comedy > 1930s

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The original French and German versions of this Brecht-Weill musical are included on this tape but with subtitles. Set in a dreamlike Victorian London, the story of Mack the Knife and Polly Peachum is timeless and the music as fresh as ever.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The music, story, and scenography make this film a winner., 23 Nov 2000
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The first time I saw this film was around 1970 in Los Angeles. The same evening I saw "Der blaue Engel" with Marlene Dietrich. For a long time these were my two favorite films. I was very pleased that Amazon has at least acquired "Die Dreigroschen Oper". I was unfamiliar with the French version and with this tape you have the chance to see and compare both French and German versions. They are of course black and white versions and luckily both have English subtitles.

This film has always enchanted me, or maybe "haunted" is the right word. I'm not sure whether it is Kurt Weill's music or the story itself. Pabst's gloomy and forbidding scenography remind me of other German classics like "M" and "Metropolis". Whatever the reason, the result is unforgettable! While viewing the film you can ask yourself why this film was forbidden in Hitler's Germany. Was it just because Brecht was a communist, or was its tale of corruption (connections between a common criminal and the chief of police) too much to handle or the fact that they were earlier comrades-in-arms and their final song had a completely unacceptable text? This film is in any case top entertainment.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Die 3groschenoper, 16 May 2003
By bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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Everyone else has told you the entire negative about this film. However there was nothing that is not said about most films tat are adaptations of plays or books. Remember folks, this is a different media and should be judged with that criterion in mind. Now you can pick on sound and picture quality. Yet again you need to keep the time of production and copy quality in mind.

I also think that this makes a better stage play and the variations in performances intriguing. However as with listening to the radio in the car, it is the best we can do to keep the memory of the actual orchestra. So when we have to listen to Wayne Newton, we can still imagine “Mack die Messer” No time in 113 minutes for all the songs.

This play was not anti Nazi it is the other way around. The Nazi regime did not like this play because it showed how illegitimacy could rise to respectability. And as they say in “Harry Potter” books, “you know who,” thought that this was too close to the truth. If you are into movies that irk Nazi’s try “Westfront 1918 (1930)” Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. You may have to search but it is out there.

Anyway, this is a good movie and worth watching. And watching again.

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