Dallas Public Library

The threepenny opera, Die 3groschenoper, musik von [Kurt] Weill ; manuskript, [Leo] Lania, [Ladislao] Vajda, [Bela] Balazs ; regie, G.W. Pabst ; gesamtleitung, S. Nebenzahl ; Janus Films ; Criterion Collection

Title from opening framesBased on the play "Threepenny opera" by Bertolt Brecht which was based on John Gay's "The Beggar's Opera."Originally released as a motion picture in 1931Special features: restored high-definition digital transfer ; audio commentary by scholars David Bathrick and Eric Rentschler ; archival introduction by stars Fritz Rasp and Ernst Busch ; documentary tracing The threepenny opera's journey from stage to screen ; Pabst's French language version of the film, L'opéra de quat'sous, adapted by Solange Térac with dialogue by André Mauprey, starring Albert Préjean, Florelle, Gaston Modot and Margo Lion ; a multimedia presentation by film scholar Charles O'Brien on the differences between the versions ; archival interview with Fritz Rasp ; galleries of production photos by Hans Casparius and production sketches by art director Andrej Andrejew ; a new essay by film critic Tony Rayns

Midwest Tape

black and white

monaural

Photography, F.A. Wagner ; edited by Hans Oser

other

Special ed.

9781934121832

videodisc

Rudolph Forster (Mackie Messer) ; Carola Neher (Polly) ; Reinhold Schünzel (Tiger Brown) ; Fritz Rasp (Peachum) ; Valeska Gert (Frau Peachum) ; Lotte Lenya (Jenny) ; Hermann Thimig (Der Pfarrer) ; Ernst Busch (Der Straßensänger) ; Wladimir Sokoloff (Smith)

2 videodiscs (110 min.), sd., b&w, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 booklet (24 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)ocn173181950(OCoLC)173181950

DVD ; NTSC ; Region 1 ; full screen (4:3) presentation ; aspect ratio 1.19:1; Dolby Digital Mono sound

715515025720

CC1713D -- Criterion Collection

DVD