Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film

Mack the Knife - Brecht's Threepenny Film

2DCS/ES
Director:Joachim Lang
Cast:Lars Eidinger, Tobias Moretti, Hannah Herzsprung, Joachim Król
Length:130 minutes
Genre:Drama

Das Filmfest Spezial

Director: Joachim Lang  •  Cast: Lars Eidinger, Tobias Moretti, Hannah Herzsprung, Joachim Król, Claudia Michelsen, Britta Hammelstein

Film producers are lining up with offers for author and playwright Bertolt Brecht. It goes without saying that the production companies are more interested in their proceeds from the box office than in the author's artistic vision. Always the idealist, Brecht refuses to play by the rules of the film industry. He wants to create a completely new kind of film — radical, uncompromising, political — and deliberately seeks to make his dispute with the film industry public. He sues the production company in an unheard-of "threepenny court case" in which he fights for his creative autonomy. This dialectic of creative idealism and economic constraints sets the perfect stage for a cinematic feat of strength. Or as Brecht himself put it: "In the contradiction lies the hope."

Length: 130 min

Year: 2018

Country of origin:

  • Germany

Das Filmfest Spezial

Director: Joachim Lang  •  Cast: Lars Eidinger, Tobias Moretti, Hannah Herzsprung, Joachim Król, Claudia Michelsen, Britta Hammelstein

Film producers are lining up with offers for author and playwright Bertolt Brecht. It goes without saying that the production companies are more interested in their proceeds from the box office than in the author's artistic vision. Always the idealist, Brecht refuses to play by the rules of the film industry. He wants to create a completely new kind of film — radical, uncompromising, political — and deliberately seeks to make his dispute with the film industry public. He sues the production company in an unheard-of "threepenny court case" in which he fights for his creative autonomy. This dialectic of creative idealism and economic constraints sets the perfect stage for a cinematic feat of strength. Or as Brecht himself put it: "In the contradiction lies the hope."

Year: 2018

Country of origin:

  • Germany