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Title Statement | The 3 penny opera [DVD] / directed by G.W. Pabst ; screenplay by Léo Lania, Béla Balázs, Ladislaus Vajda. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Three penny opera Threepenny opera |
Series | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) |
Additional Contributors | Pabst, G. W.(Georg Wilhelm),1885-1967 |
Lenya, Lotte | |
Forster, Rudolf,1884-1968 | |
Rasp, Fritz,1891-1976 | |
Weill, Kurt,1900-1950 | |
Publication | [New York]: Criterion Collection, c2007. |
Extent of Item | 2 videodiscs (110 min.) |
ISBN | 1934121835 (v.r.) 9781934121832 (v.r.) |
Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 715515025720 |
Other Number | 1828681 |
General Notes | DVDs. Disc label title. Originally released as a motion picture in 1931. From the play by Bertolt Brecht. Standard version. Special features include: audio commentary, archival introduction by stars, documentary, "L'opéra de quat'sous", Pabst's French-language version of the film, multimedia presentation by film scholar Charles O'Brien on the differences between the English and French version, archival interview with Fritz Rasp, galleries of production photos and production sketches, essay. Booklet (24 p. : ill.) inserted in container. |
Production Credits | Songs composed by Kurt Weill. |
Performance Credits | Lotte Lenya, Rudolph Forster, Fritz Rasp, Carola Neher, Reinhold Schünzel. |
Languages | German language track with English language subtitles. |
System Details | DVDs Dolby mono. |
Terms of Use | Public performance rights. |
Summary | Lenya plays prostitute Jenny Brown, and Forster is Mack the Knife in this musical fantasy of crime and sex in the Soho underworld of the 1890's. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Musical films |
Motion pictures, German | |
Foreign films | |
Feature films | |
By Location | Soho (London, England)--Fiction |