The Threepenny Opera

IMDb link: 0021818
IMDb rating: 7.2 (2,730 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast: Lotte Lenya, Rudolf Forster, Albert Prejean, Florelle, Carola Neher and others

Release date: 8 Dec 1933
Release year: 1931
Runtime: 104 minutes
Country: Germany, United States
Keywords: thief, satire comedy, daughter, police, crowning, rat, social inequality, poverty, wedding party, police chief

Plot:

In London, rascal Mackie Messer is 'king of the thieves' and an irresistible pimp. When he meets Polly Peachum on the street, he invites her for a drink and they soon marry. When Polly's father Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum a.k.a. 'the king of the beggars' learns about the marriage of his daughter, he presses the chief of police Jackie "Tiger" Brown to arrest his friend Mackie.

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