Kurt Weill

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (2022)

In an imaginary American city, God consigns its licentious citizens to hell but they truculently reply that they are already there. Mahagonny 'the city of nets' is founded in the desert by three criminals on the run from the police. It is to be a city devo ...

The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala (2021)

The Seven Deadly Sins tells the story of two sisters, Anna I and Anna II. The sisters set out from the banks of the Mississippi River in Louisiana to find their fortune in the big cities, intending to send their family enough money to build a little house ...

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2019)

Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism and the inexorable industrialization of a society in which the ultimate crime is not having money ...

Kurt Weill: Street Scene (2019)

The main plot of this rampant collection of scenes from the streets of the lower East Side of New York revolves around Frank and Anna Maurrant and their daughter Rose. A violent and tough character, Frank fails to see his wife's growing despair due to his ...

National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera (2016)

As London's East End scrubs up for the coronation, Mr and Mrs Peachum gear up for a bumper day in the beggary business. Keeping tight control of the city's underground – and their daughter's whereabouts. ...

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2011)

A hard-hitting new production of Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus at the Teatro Real de Madrid. Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism a ...

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2007)

- Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 & 4 March 2007. Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and love is always on sale. This Old West boomtown rises from the desert to become a razzle-dazzle mecca for lust, liberty, and the pursuit of pleasure. Cash i ...

The Threepenny Opera (2000)

Macheath (Mack the Knife), notorious bandit and womanizer, runs afoul of Jonathan Peachum when he marries Peachum's daughter Polly in a ceremony of doubtful legality. Peachum's resolve to have Mack sent to the gallows is complicated by the fact that Mack's ...

The Eternal Road (1999)

A biblical drama in four acts. Set in a synagogue where Jews hide all night as a pogrom rages outside, the story combines Biblical and pre-World War II Jewish history. The rabbi reads from the Torah, leading, in each act, to the exploration and re-enactmen ...

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1998)

Depicts the consumerism of the mythical city of Mahagonny, conveying all its ripe decadence. A Hollywood Babylon full of pyramidal towers, carved elephants, commodified sex and licensed gluttony. An opera in three acts, live from the Salzburger Festspiele ...

The Threepenny Opera (1995)

The Threepenny Opera proclaims itself "an opera for beggars," and it was in fact an attempt both to satirize traditional opera and operetta and to create a new kind of musical theater based on the theories of two young German artists, composer Kurt Weill a ...

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (1994)

Filmmaker Larry Weinstein stages a wide range of performances in tribute to the compositions of Kurt Weill. ...

Kurt Weill: Street Scene (1993)

The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two plotlines: the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbor Sam Kaplan; and on the extramarital affair of Rose's ...

The Seven Deadly Sins (1993)

Anna I and Anna II set out on a seven year journey that takes them through a series of varied life experiences while their parents and two brothers remain behind. ...

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America (1992)

The story of Kurt Weill 's relationship with the American popular theatre. During his years in exile on Broadway, the composer of Mack the Knife and The Alabama Song, who personified decadent Berlin, found a new life in New York, creating such standards as ...

Mack the Knife (1989)

In 19th century London, a young girl falls for a womanizing criminal and they decide to wed. Her family strongly disapproves so her father, 'the king of thieves', gets the gangster arrested. ...

Down in the Valley (1984)

Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster who the father thinks will bail him out of his money troubles instead. ...

Blue Beach (1982)

A mature woman and her friends go on vacation to Spain, where they seduce the young men they meet. ...

No. 18: Mahagonny (1980)

Harry Smith's final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1929) for over ten years and considered it his magnum opus. The film wa ...

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1979)

John Dexter's brilliant production, James Levine's masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to make this Kurt Weill–Bertolt Brecht masterpiece a riveting evening of music theater. At the center of the action is Jim ...

Låt er inte förföras (1978)

"Don't Be Seduced" - Gothenburg's Brecht-ensemble performs songs and texts of Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler. ...

Lost in the Stars (1974)

A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son. ...

Mahagonny (1974)

The city of Mahagonny, founded by three criminals, becomes a place for people looking for their luck or money. One among them is the lumberjack Jim Mahoney. However, he is disappointed by what the city is. ...

The Threepenny Opera (1963)

The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation. ...

One Touch of Venus (1955)

While touring a museum, Rodney Hatch, an unremarkable barber, places an engagement ring intended for his girlfriend on the hand of a statue of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. From Mount Olympus, Venus witnesses the event and decides to visit Rodney ...

Lady in the Dark (1954)

The unhappy female editor of a fashion magazine is undergoing psychoanalysis. ...

One Touch of Venus (1948)

A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life. ...

Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)

The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun ...

Lady in the Dark (1944)

A neurotic editor sees a psychoanalyst about the advertising man, movie star and other man in her life. ...

A Salute to France (1944)

Commissioned to prepare Allied troops for the liberation of Europe, the film uses a blend of staged narratives and historical footage to promote solidarity and dispel the myth that France was a nation of willing collaborators. ...

Schweik is Preparing For Battle (1942)

You and Me (1938)

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in l ...

The Threepenny Opera (1931)

The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version. ...

The 3 Penny Opera (1931)

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'. ...

Brecht vs. Pabst: The Transformation of The Threepenny Opera (2007)

The documentary traces the tragic story of the "Threepenny Opera" from stage to screen and ultimately to the bitter lawsuit between Bertolt Brecht and the film producers. ...