Kurt Weill Movie Trailers

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Trailer (1979)

27 November 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.

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

15 November 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.

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

31 December 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 September Song and Speak Low.

Lady in the Dark Trailer (1954)

25 September 1954

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

The 3 Penny Opera Trailer (1931)

18 February 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'.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Trailer (2007)

18 December 2007

- Recorded live at Los Angeles Opera, 1 & 4 March 2007. Welcome to Mahagonny, where sin is "in" and love is always on sale.

Mahagonny Trailer (1974)

09 February 1974

The city of Mahagonny, founded by three criminals, becomes a place for people looking for their luck or money.

Kurt Weill: Street Scene Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946.

Down in the Valley Trailer (1984)

16 April 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.

Kurt Weill: Street Scene Trailer (2019)

28 February 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.

Blue Beach Trailer (1982)

12 March 1982

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

Schweik is Preparing For Battle Trailer (1942)

01 January 1942

The Threepenny Opera Trailer (1963)

28 February 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.

Knickerbocker Holiday Trailer (1944)

17 March 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.

The Eternal Road Trailer (1999)

17 May 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.

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Trailer (2019)

06 July 2019

Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism and ty

No. 18: Mahagonny Trailer (1980)

13 September 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.

You and Me Trailer (1938)

01 June 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.

The Threepenny Opera Trailer (1931)

08 June 1931

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

One Touch of Venus Trailer (1948)

01 August 1948

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

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny Trailer (2022)

30 April 2022

In an imaginary American city, God consigns its licentious citizens to hell but they truculently reply that they are already there.

The Threepenny Opera Trailer (2000)

21 December 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.

Låt er inte förföras Trailer (1978)

21 September 1978

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

One Touch of Venus Trailer (1955)

27 August 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.

National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera Trailer (2016)

22 September 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.

Mack the Knife Trailer (1989)

01 November 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.

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill Trailer (1994)

25 January 1994

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

Lady in the Dark Trailer (1944)

10 February 1944

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

Lost in the Stars Trailer (1974)

08 April 1974

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

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

18 March 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 on the river.

A Salute to France Trailer (1944)

02 January 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.

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

01 January 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.

The Threepenny Opera Trailer (1995)

01 January 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 and poet-playwright Bert Brecht.

The Seven Deadly Sins Trailer (1993)