The 3 Penny Opera (1931)

7.1/10 112 min 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

Mackie Messer

Carola Neher

Polly

Reinhold Schünzel

Tiger-Brown

Fritz Rasp

Peachum

Valeska Gert

Mrs. Peachum

Lotte Lenya

Jenny

Hermann Thimig

The Vicar

Ernst Busch

The Street Singer

Vladimir Sokoloff

Smith, the Jailer

Paul Kemp

Mackie Messer's Gang Member

Gustav Püttjer

Mackie Messer's Gang Member

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