Threepenny Opera - LOpéra de quatsous (1931) Francais -DVD9- Eng Subs - Albert Prejean, Florelle [DDR]

2016.01.22






Threepenny Opera - L'Opéra de quat'sous (1931) Francais -DVD9- Eng Subs - Albert Prejean, Florelle [DDR]

The Threepenny Opera (French L'Opéra de quat'sous) is a 1931 French musical film directed by G. W. Pabst.
It was produced by Seymour Nebenzal's Nero-Film for Tonbild-Syndikat AG (Tobis), Berlin and Warner Bros. Pictures GmbH, Berlin.
The film is loosely based on the 1928 musical theatre success The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
As was usual in the early sound film era, Pabst also directed a French language version of the film, L'Opéra de quat'sous, with some variation of plot details (the French title literally translates as "the four penny opera"). A planned English version was not made. The two existing versions were released by The Criterion Collection on home video.

The Threepenny Opera differs in significant respects from the play and the internal timeline is somewhat vague. The whole of society is presented as corrupt in one form or another. Only some of the songs from the play are used, in a different order.

CAST:- French-language version
Florelle as Polly Peachum
Albert Préjean as Mackie
Gaston Modot as Peachum
Margo Lion as Jenny
Vladimir Sokoloff as Smith, geôlier
Lucy de Matha as Mme. Peachum
Jacques Henley as Tiger-Brown
Hermann Thimig as pasteur
Antonin Artaud as nouveau mendiant
Roger Gaillard[fr] as mendiant
Marie-Antoinette Buzet as fille à Turnbridge

Directed by G. W. Pabst
Produced by Seymour Nebenzal
Written by Béla Balázs, Leo Lania, Ladislaus Vajda
Music by Kurt Weill
Running time 113 minutes (German version)
Running time 107 minutes (French version)

MOVIE PLOT:- The Threepenny Opera (1931) Francais
Macheath aka "Mack the Knife" ("Albert Préjean" in French) is presented as an antihero and is in league with Tiger Brown, Chief of Police, who is about to oversee the coronation of an unspecified queen.

Macheath marries Polly Peachum, daughter of Jonathan Jeremiah Peachum, but still visits the brothel on Turnmill Street. Peachum is displeased at his daughter's marriage, and threatens Brown with the disruption of the coronation by a protest march of beggars and others. The police raid the brothel where Macheath has gone to visit his former lover Jenny, and after a rooftop escape, he is arrested, imprisoned, and sentenced to death.

Meanwhile, Polly buys a bank and runs it with Macheath's henchmen, making him a bank director, and arranges surety for Macheath to leave prison. This causes a change of heart in her parents; her father tries to stop the protest march but fails.

Jenny visits the prison, and aids Macheath's escape. He makes his way to the bank, where he discovers his new status. Peachum and Brown, whose police career is ruined by the demonstration, also come to the bank and agree to join forces.



TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 6132 kbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1
Frames Per Second: 29.970
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: English
RunTime 107 mins
Subtitles: None
Ripped by: Trinidad [DDR]