All language subtitles for Mackie Messer - Brechts Dreigroschenfilm (2018) eng

�How can art
change people

if they can't change
your destiny? Bertolt Brecht.

This is the story of a
film that never saw the light of day.

A group of artists are given a voice

who asked great questions
about society

and they had a worldwide success.

Everything that Brecht says in the
film is taken from his quotes.

Lords who seek to reform us,

overcoming our criminal instinct,

first try to feed us:

�eat first, then morals!

You who do not forget
take care of our honor,

without that
stop getting fat,

Listen to this:
No matter how many times they think about it,

�eat first,

then morality!

August 31, 1928
Early morning on opening day

"Anything goes, isn't it?"

�This form of
address the public!

- So raw!
- It's a scandal!

"A great man among whores."

I refuse to sing it.

You can recite it.

You are not so looked when
you perform in the cabaret.

I'm not going to change
nothing of the work.

Well, you interpret it.
What audacity!

Please.

Brecht and Weil have written "The
"Ballad of Mackie the Razor"

for the street singer.

And you can leave yourself
beautiful blue handkerchief.

But you must delete
the final chorus.

It looks like Bach,

has nothing to do with
"The Threepenny Opera."

You have to pay more.

I'm not an actor
You can't do anything to me.

I don't have anything.

30 marks a day, if you don't
you are left without a character.

Talk to Brecht,
He hired you.

-Brecht.
- Ah, Aufricht!

Do I need to change any text?

Do you know what the rumor is?

You want to create chaos
to shock the public.

I should cancel the work.
But the premiere is tonight!

Please, we have to
finish the dress rehearsal.

I forbid you
remove the final chorus.

We're an hour late.

We leave the final chorus and
we delete a ballad.

And we reduce the scene of
Peachum in half.

In that case, I'm leaving,
forever.

The horse!

We eliminate the horse.

We have to rehearse
the projections.

Everyone out!

An extra will pull the bridle

with Gerron on the horse.

Is it a joke?

The horse stays or
I canceled the work.

We have to finish
rehearse for the premiere.

Clear the stage!

The test is over.

I won't set foot here again.

- Me neither.
- Neither do I.

Please can you
sign it on paper?

THE NIGHT OF THE PREMIERE.

THE OPERA OF
THE THREE PENTIES

Sharks

they have teeth

that do not treat

to hide.

But Mackie, he has a knife.

A knife

that no one can see.

A beautiful Sunday,
of blue sky,

a corpse appears on the dock.

A man turns the corner.

His name is Mackie, the Razor.

This is unacceptable!
Where is Lenya's name?

You have forgotten my wife.

She's not going to act.

I beg you.

Be reasonable.

Today I turn 30 years old and I ask you to

you take charge

Don't you understand?

The public...

It will cause a scandal.

I planned it all.

If the public whistles,
the actors will respond.

Gentlemen artists, you know what

the banker told me
When did you lend me the money?

If I lend you money,

you can waste it, which is
how to flush the toilet

You can invest it, not there
you will have no problem.

But if you invest it in a
theater will disappear,

and you will have many problems.

Well?
Lotte Lenya will not act.

Honey, calm down.

Tomorrow, everyone will know me!

Let's keep our fingers crossed!

Let it be clear,
we don't do encores!

Soldiers march with their cannons

from Cap to Couch Bihar.

And even if it rains,

There is no one who can handle them.
And to any race

white or black,

they go and transform it
in minced meat.

Mr. Brecht, is this a
new shape of pear?

It is an attempt to get
the opera of his imbecility.

The public was enthusiastic,
What do you think of this success?

It's a new genre.
The public was waiting for him.

The songs
They will reach the bars.

This destroys the idea that
The public never leaves happy.

Which upsets me a little.

Mrs. Hauptmann, you
translated "The Beggar's Opera."

Without you, "The Opera of the
three cents" would not exist.

It's true. I'm the only one who
speaks English correctly.

But we enjoy
working together.

Most critics
They had predicted failure.

Remember what I said:

"If you want the opinion
of a great man,

you should know that I have
great self-esteem."

Why don't you do
a film of the work?

�That industry is so stupid

that soon
I will close the business!

A FEW MONTHS LATER

It's the way to make money
and make a movie.

- But you said...
- I know.

I often change my mind.

And I don't remember everything I say.

Good idea!

We sell records
"The Threepenny Opera"

with the sheet music
of the songs.

�And also with postcards,
writing paper

and even painting paper!

We are in fashion!

All Berlin sings
our songs.

So why
not make a movie?

It would benefit us all.

Life is praised
of wise men

who live between
books with nothing to eat.

There is no rat there
Find something to gnaw on.

�Stop selling me stories!

I'm not going to stop
no one lives this life.

I don't want her.

I don't know anyone
from here to Babylon

that could bear
a life like that.

What is the use of freedom,

on its own.

Money is needed

to live happily.

Look, Carola Neher.

I buried your funeral prayer
before I had to

abandon the premiere.

"Here we bury
the best actress.

We forget that it takes very
little to move the human soul.

"Destiny is cruel."

Wow!

Actresses sometimes
They stumble off stage.

Our element
It's the stage.

Fate is cruel.

�A work that takes months
whole people filling theaters,

that has converted you
in stars!

I'm here again.

What a coincidence.
Do you want to act in the movie?

I do what I enjoy,
like Shakespeare.

I want a movie to my liking,
so I'm writing it.

But you stated that
this industry

it was just one
brutalized industry.

Is this a good idea?

I have fixed the project,
which will be on a large scale,

almost unrealizable.

Read this.

"Mr. Brecht will take care of
of the script and dialogues,

musical compositions,
new and existing,

They will be run by Kurt Weill."

You already know,

cinema needs art.

The film rests on this idea:

A gangster is a normal man.

Beggars and vagabonds
They have savings books.

The same for music.

The gangster and the man on the street
They feel the same emotions.

The gallows is supplied
by the company X and Co.

Peachum believes that the Bible
protects it from theft.

The man has a head

but it doesn't help you much.

Just to feed
to lice.

MACKIE, THE RAZOR.
The film that Brecht wanted to make

Subtitles: Eva74

We describe what happens
behind appearances.

We cannot be satisfied
with reproducing reality.

We understand, Mr. Brecht.

"A photo of the factories
Krupp or AEG

doesn't say anything about
these institutions.

You have to use artifices,

and put some art into it."

Exact. Art allows
people enjoy life.

You know, who doesn't
like what he does,

can't wait
others are interested in it.

The artists are very strong.

If you don't follow the plot,
just look.

If you want a show
Simple, go see another one.

The price of entry
It is never returned.

Like the play, the film
will be set in London,

but with artificial decorations,
with a cardboard moon

Only the gallows he carries is real.

London, capital of the world.

Of finances, yes!

The film will be set in
the London of detective novels.

First, find a plan,

�trusting inspiration!

�And then you make a second plan!

You will see that it will be of no use.

Because, in this life,

you have to be clever

because if you are careless
you can fall into the hole."

We are in the underworld
of Soho and Whitechapel,

the refuge of the poor,
an inconspicuous layer

of the population of London.

The film begins with...

"On what does man live?"

�What does man live on?

To torment,

spoil, attack and
devour his neighbor.

It's the only way
has to stay alive.

That is its great faculty.

And so forget

that is a human being.

Gentlemen,

don't get your hopes up:

�the man alone
Live to do evil!

�The man

just live

to do evil!

Lords who seek to teach us

when a woman
can you lift your skirts

and squint your eyes when you look.

First try to feed us:

�eat first, then morals!

You what decency
they demand of us today,

although tomorrow they come
with us to enjoy,

listen to this:

No matter how many times they think about it,

�eat first, then morals!

�It has to be possible

that even the poorest

have your piece of bread!

Cut.

Stop everything!

The opera does not begin like this.

He bought the rights to the opera.

It would be foolish to film
the work literally.

But the public wants
"The Ballad of Mackie Messer".

It's what you're waiting for.

I don't want to please the public.

I want to change it.

Think about...

One afternoon when he was leaving
an Oak Street brothel,

Drury Lane Brothel.

Mr. Macheath
He sees a young woman.

He sees her back and knows,
following her lovely ass,

that he will marry her.

Wait a moment!
Cinema no longer uses subtitles.

- I'm going to reintroduce them.
- That's nonsense.

In cinema, it is the film
that tells the story.

People have to
feel identified.

So we can only
screen "Oedipus"

in a full room
of little Oedipus

You want to take to
public through the nose,

preventing me from thinking

and don't question anything.

But you have to be careful,

look at sports stadiums
They are full of experts.

If you don't listen
to my artistic director,

at least give up
sexual allusions.

To avoid censorship.

"Following his ass",

We can't put that.

Why?
Art copies reality.

Come on, let's start
from the beginning.

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT

One afternoon when he was leaving
an Oak Street brothel,

Drury Lane Brothel.

Mr. Macheath sees a young girl.
He sees her from behind,

and you know, following your
lovely butt,

that he will marry her.

A beautiful Sunday,

of blue sky,

a corpse appears on the dock.

A man turns the corner,

His name is Mackie, the Razor.

Schul Meier

he is dead.

And he is not the only one
among the rich.

Your money

Mackie has it in his pocket,

but no one will be able to prove it.

In the face of the growing
insensitivity of men.

Businessman Jonathan
Peachum has opened a business

that provides the poorest
of an appearance

that can move the
more hardened hearts.

�Wake up,
degenerate Christian!

Repent
your life of sin.

It shows that
You are a scoundrel.

And God will forgive you.

Betray your brother, you bastard.

Sell your wife
to the highest bidder,

it doesn't matter, damn it.

God will forgive you
in the Last Judgment.

Peachum and Company?

peachum

�Manages the company
"The beggar's friend"?

They have recommended it to me.

Your name?

You see, there was an incident
on Highland Street.

I was in the
street corner...

Highland Street?

You are the one
Honey caught yesterday?

bothering the
passers-by from District 10.

We are content with a beating

because we assumed not
You knew how this works.

If you set foot there again,

We will move on.

Please, Mr. Peachum.

Without my jacket,
I look like a dried cod.

my friend,

If my boys get really angry,
You will end up flat as a sheet.

Listen,

The licenses are
reserved for professionals.

London is divided
in 14 districts.

whoever wants
practice begging

must have a license
from "Peachum and Company".

- Your name?
-Charles Filch.

Mrs. Peachum!

Can I invite these
ladies to dance to "Octopus"?

What is that?

The five types of misery

that move the human soul

The vision of these guys

destabilizes individuals and
encourages them to part with their money.

Suit A,
victim of road traffic.

The elegant paralytic,
always cheerful and happy,

the team is a
stump in the arm.

Suit B, war invalid.

With a horrible tremor

that bothers people

and what is used
to cause disgust

which is attenuated by the
military decorations.

Suit C,
victim of industrial development.

The needy blind man

that is, the high school
of begging.

Be careful!

You feel sorry for him!

You will never learn the trade.

You will not go beyond being
a simple passerby.

Suit D,

Take off your clothes and
put this on Take care of it.

- What about my things?
- Now they belong to the company.

Suit E,

the young man who has
known better days.

Why can't I be that one?

Because no one will believe
your own misery.

If it hurts you
stomach and you say it,

It will only cause discomfort.

Only the artists
they move hearts.

If they do it correctly,

Their audience will applaud them.

While Peachum
exploits the poor,

Polly's fate
It is sealed.

After dancing half
hour with Macheath,

leave the place dancing and
He follows him, without knowing him.

She says:

I'm just giving
a walk with you.

I'm going to postpone the robbery
to organize the wedding.

Eleven o'clock,

House of the Duke of Somersetshire.
He is traveling.

A blue canopy bed.

They walk between the couples
who kiss in the alley.

About twenty robberies

will be necessary for
prepare the wedding bed,

with table and
toothbrush,

enough to
gather what is necessary

to form the trousseau
of the young girl.

Stop!

Wait a moment!

Delirious. You know what
cost this scene?

It's going to ruin me.

As I tell it,
it doesn't cost anything.

He will become an adept of
epic theater Let's continue.

Nobody move!

in the street,
while the bullets fly

and three cars block the sidewalk,

two lovebirds

they move in the night,
oblivious to everything else.

Some men break a display case.

lovers give
a boat ride.

She is the one who rows!

It must be taken seriously
to the spectators.

They pay their entry to
see great feelings.

Listen to what
Mackie is going to say.

And now let's give rein
let go of the feelings.

This is what distinguishes the
beast of burden man.

Do you see the moon shining in Soho?

Yes, my love.

�You feel my heart beat. dear?

I'm sorry, dear.

Wherever you go,

I will follow you.

Wherever you are

I will be there.

All you need to do is go to the civil registry

and the flowers on the altar.

You don't know from where
your wedding dress is coming

and you will not wear myrtle in your hair.

�The plate where
you have eaten your bread,

don't look at it, throw it away!

Love lasts

or it doesn't last,

you never know.

The moon is rising
over the canal.

One or two moons
They will be enough.

You are exaggerating.

This is cynicism.

The public will not accept it.
It's not to your taste.

That "public taste" is the search
of a profitability guarantee.

It is that of the sponsors.

I know the
public expectations.

I am the author of the piece
that you want to adapt.

I hired the artists
of greater renown.

They know how to transmit emotions.

I have one of the
best directors.

He sees "The Threepenny Opera"
like a visual story.

That's ridiculous.

And the two moons in Soho?

You want a realistic image,

gather sensations,
produce feelings

to hypnotize the public,
to artificially intoxicate him.

On an artistic level, you have
the brain of an oyster.

Let's try it again.
Look at this photo.

Macheath poses with his people

like an amateur choir.

Let's see what was really happening,

what the photo doesn't say.

Macheath and Polly get married

four hours later
of their meeting

in the halls of
Duke of Somersetshire.

This gentleman is not
found in London,

it is enough with
tie two servants

to occupy the place.

The patio becomes
in a slaughterhouse.

When they get there,

the newlyweds
They have the joy of discovering

a big room
decorated for the party.

Congratulations.

We had to loot
the people of 14 Ginger Street.

We had to kill a policeman.

fans.

We did what we could,

but three people
They died in the Westend.

We have spanked an old man

but it hasn't turned out too bad.

The order was to avoid
a bloodbath.

That's what bothers me.

They will never be businessmen.

At most, cannibals.

To the businessman Macheath
he hates spilling blood

when it is not necessary
for business.

Its principle is to limit the
bloodshed to a minimum.

Do you like furniture?

But those poor people...

For this furniture!
A shame!

I understand your anger.

�This harpsichord with
a Renaissance sofa!

Unforgivable!
But forget everything.

Do I get married every day?

Shut your mouth.

How many times do you
Do I leave carte blanche?

You make my wife unhappy.

Dear Polly...

Dear Polly?

"I'll beat you up,
you little bastard!

Have you heard that?
Dear Polly!

- Have you slept with her?
- Mac!

I swear to you...

Gentlemen, please,
take off these rags

and dress appropriately.

It's not just anyone's wedding.

You have to endure the
view of these worms

on your wedding day.

Who is that gentleman?

They call him "The Captain."

I don't even
You asked his name.

Interesting.

It would have been rude

demand the departure
of birth

to such an elegant man
who invited us to the "Octopus"

to dance

"The Captain."

Hotel "Octopus".

Good, good.

In our presence,
He didn't take off his gloves.

Leather gloves.

And an ivory cane?

And he was wearing ankle boots?

Very bright?

An air of seducer

and a scar...

In the neck.

You know him, of course.

It's Mackie, the Razor.

- Where is my daughter?
- Oh my God!

God help me!
Mackie, the Razor...

Jesus, help us

Where's Polly?

Polly hasn't come back.

His bed is not made.

Instead of...

Instead of staying in
home inside their beds,

they want to have fun

as if life
It was a party.

Blame the moon of Soho,

to those novels
romances and nonsense

"�I will follow you� until
The end of the world, Johnny!"

Love arises and the moon grows.

Instead of...

Instead of acting
correctly,

they prefer to have fun

and end up dragged
through the mud.

�What good is the moon
What shines in Soho?

�What's wrong with those
romantic and silly novels?

"�I will follow you� until
The end of the world, Johnny!"

When love ends,

they die in
loneliness and misery.

I was young, barely sixteen,

you landed in Burma...

The whole world dances to his music.

How do you value the
industrialization of your art?

�It is the most innovative work
created in Berlin,

We should not criticize their success!

I write for an audience
who lives with his time.

I dream of art
that touches the essential

and may it last a thousand years.

A not very serious art.

From night to morning,
They are rich and famous.

You don't think this success

can you make it fit?

I can't stay still,
I'm a bad ass.

I don't eat much,
I immediately fill up.

The voluptuousness
could catch me,

but you have to
dedicate a lot of time to it.

It would be necessary to be able
enjoy in fast motion.

The sex of a year in a second.

For a great idea, I would sacrifice
to almost all women.

Surabaya Johnny,

�Why are you so cruel?

- He has 3 children with 3 women.
- My private life doesn't matter.

Mr. Weill, you are married to
actress Lotte Lenya.

She says she married me
to experience a great emotion.

And she says she did it.

She means a lot.

It's just more
my music is important.

It is said that many people
They take their text literally.

"Eat first, then morals."

People like it.

Was that your goal?

What makes the work
be so successful?

To trivialities, I'm afraid.

The romantic intrigue, the idyll,

the music.

What is important
for you?

Social criticism.

Capitalism turns everything
satire becomes opium for the people.

Therefore,
the film must denounce

bourgeois ideology.

The trickster's wedding
Mackie the Razor

will appear in the movie

as a social event.

We observe that the
local authorities

They are invited. The judge of
Drury Lane, a General,

two parliamentarians

and three well-known lawyers.

They came with their wives.

But some would find it difficult
present a marriage certificate.

Don't swallow it
everything as always!

It's not the time.

I would have preferred not to have
what to see you gobbling,

but now you have to organize
something to entertain guests.

- What for example?
- I'll have to tell you everything.

I don't want an opera.

Just something entertaining
that is not full

of rudeness or swear words.

The salmon is excellent, Mac.

He eats it very often.

I always said Mac would get married
with a woman of good taste.

I bet on Lucy yesterday.

Who is this Lucy, Mac?

Don't worry about that.

What are you looking for?

Salt, perhaps?

What were you saying, Jakob?

Nothing.

What do you have in your hand, Jakob?

A knife.

And on your plate?

A trout, "Captain."

And you use that knife

to eat fish?

You behave like a pig.

Did you hear me, Jakob?

You have a lot to do, Polly,

to civilize these idiots.

Gentlemen, since no one is encouraged,

I myself will interpret
a song

I used to imagine,
When I was innocent,

that time of innocence
that we have all been through,

what answer would you give

to the man who would court me.

If I had money,

if he was kind

if he wore the neck
clean from Monday to Friday,

and he knew how to behave
with a lady...

To that one I would say:

No.

Without children, I would refuse
to lead this life.

I wouldn't do it for you.

What are you all
the days drunk.

If our marriage
would have brought some pleasure

I wouldn't have to search
comfort in alcohol.

I could live without him.

I work day and night for your daughter

and you throw it to the
arms of a libertine.

We have to marry her!

You spend as if I
was a millionaire.

But one day, a beautiful day,

he introduced himself
a man without manners.

He hung his hat on
a hanger from my room

and it made me lose my mind.

I didn't have money,

he was not kind,

his neck was not
clean not even on sunday

and I didn't know how
behave with a lady...

But I didn't say no to him.

One minute! It's time to
study the situation.

The scoundrel Macheath
represents the bourgeoisie.

But the public sees it as
a bubbly hero. Romantic.

He pretends to be a
businessman.

It is true that the gangsters
They look bourgeois.

Nobody cares about reality
in the theater and in the cinema!

Do you think the public pays?
to see real life?

He prefers to see what
It doesn't look like real life.

Exactly, claim
feelings and emotions.

You are right.
The rest is nonsense.

Always the same story...

Polly appears, at the beginning,
like a virtuous being,

but it is also
Peachum's daughter.

The bride shows her sensuality
before consummating the marriage.

Everyone wants her,

the promised wins
the game, but as a bourgeois.

The trickster fascinates
to the bourgeois

who think that a
truhan is not bourgeois.

They are based on the wrong idea

that a bourgeois
He is not a crook.

- There is no difference.
- Yes.

A crook not always
He is a coward.

Let's try.

Please.

�They have passed

so many things

that I couldn't

say no!

Very nice!

How "pretty"?

You haven't understood anything, idiot.
This is art.

You were superb, Polly.

But these brutes
They don't understand anything.

A fiancé!
He's going to want to rob us.

Do you think that your daughter, in bed,

Do you know how to stay quiet?
It's like you.

You have a concept
very nice of your daughter.

Worst.

A body full of lasciviousness.

I didn't inherit it from you.

It has a real wooden leg.

What does he know how to do?

Nothing, beggar.

Is that what you do?

You have a wooden leg,
so you beg?

You're not the only one.

There are not many offers.

The competition!
It is the basis of our culture.

The engine of evolution.

A wooden leg
It's enough to beg.

It is used only in
police control case,

but in this case,
a real one is not necessary.

The police!

The sheriff himself.

Tiger Brown,

The chief sheriff of London,
the backbone of the Old Bailey.

- Hello, Jackie.
- Hello, Mac.

�You needed to use the
Duke's residence?

It's a crime.

It's so comfortable, Jackie.

What a joy you come to the
your old friend Mac's wedding!

I will introduce you to my wife,

née Peachum.

Polly, this is Tiger Brown.

And here are my friends,
but you should already know them.

- I came incognito.
- Them too, Jack.

Nice to meet
my old friend's wife.

My pleasure, dear.

My love.

Gentlemen,

today we count between
us with a man,

to whom a king,
in a personal decision,

has placed above
of his compatriots

and who, however,
still my friend

in the middle of all the storms

and dangers...

and everything else.

Jackie! Do you remember when

we were soldiers
of the army in India?

I lost a leg
serving my country.

All the more reason.

It can happen to everyone,

except the Minister of War.

Soldiers like you
They don't attract attention.

I need gentlemen!

You look like a pacifist,

We don't do politics here.

Standing there, you express that

war is a terrible thing,

in which you can
lose a leg

You don't have the skills to
be a profitable beggar.

Celia!

Show him the dogs
to this gentleman.

Our dogs were not
chosen to guide the blind,

but to awaken compassion.

They have to have
a miserable appearance.

It has to do with the
way they feed.

I refuse.

It gives the movie
a political tone.

In the theater,
the artist can do it.

But, in the cinema, that entails
great financial risks.

I don't mind,
I have a contract.

I know your contract.
And it's my money.

You sold the rights.

The author can refuse
to adapt their work.

In summary,
you blame us for complaining

that our clothes are dirty

after washing it in the mud.

You believe you have the right to
misrepresent what you paid.

-When one commits...
- You have to comply.

But we may not like it.

We will make this movie
a success, even if it is without you.

Then I will go to court.

John was there, Jim too

and George went
Promoted to sergeant.

The army prepares
without asking.

Now they advance north.

Soldiers march

with their cannons

from Cap to Couch Bihar.

And even if it rains,

there is no one who can handle them.

And to any race
white or black,

they go and transform it
in minced meat.

Johnny warmed himself with whiskey

and Jimmy was always cold

Georgie took them aside and said:
"The army is counting on you."

Soldiers march
with their cannons.

From Cap to Couch Bihar.

And even if it rains,

there is no one who can handle them.

And to any race
white or black,

they go and transform it
in minced meat.

The police chief shoots
to peaceful workers.

Berlin.
May 1, 1929.

Sociologist's House
F. Sternberg.

How not to write about them?

I write for people
that matters to me,

and these people are being subjected
to unbearable suffering.

If humanity is destroyed,
art will disappear.

make the words
rhyme is not art.

How can art
change people

if they can't
change your destiny?

John is dead
and Jimmy slapped it,

�George is missing,

but the blood
it keeps spilling!

The army continues recruiting.

Soldiers march
with their cannons.

From Cap to Couch Bihar.

And even if it rains,

there is no one who can handle them.

And to any race
white or black,

they go and transform it
in minced meat.

"3000 bank offices

in the United States!

6 million unemployed
in Germany!

Brazil throws a
coffee harvest to the sea!

Essay of "Saint Joan
of the slaughterhouses"

The sacred laws of
the human economy

They will always be impenetrable.

Without preventing,

the volcano that erupts
and devastates the region.

Very good.

It is about demonstrating that
we have built an economy

on which we all depend
and that few people understand.

market transactions
values are crazy.

When I had this intuition,
a few years ago,

I understood that there was
caught a big fish.

You won't get anything from Nero-Film

The rich prosper
coast of the poor,

but the cinema doesn't say it.

And no theater
will represent your work.

Let's continue.

It's up to us
convey these ideas.

Juana is breaking the system.

I see the system.

There are few people upstairs,
and many below.

Those above shout
to those below:

Come up.
We will all be up!

But upon closer inspection,

we can see what is hidden
between the superiors and the inferiors.

It seems like a path,

It is nothing more than a simple board.

But if we look at it better
we see that it is a seesaw

This system is like

a seesaw whose two
sides are not balanced.

A few are enthroned above,

and others must stagnate below,

in great numbers,
otherwise it will not be maintained.

It's just a seesaw.

They don't speak the same language.
Two weights, two measures.

They don't know anyone

after reaching the top.

This one is very fat.

You have cheated his weight.

A blind man with a fat dog
does not arouse compassion.

people react
instinctively.

Don't think that I do
fast my dogs

out of pure cruelty.

If they are fat,
business suffers.

Have you gotten married?

We cover it with
best clothes, hats,

gloves and umbrella, and a
once dressed from head to toe,

she throws herself into his arms
of the first thief who appears.

So...

you have become
a scoundrel's whore.

This is ours
Reward, Jonathan.

My head is spinning.

Serve me a cordial wine.

Look in what state
you put your mother.

We can give you two drinks.

my mother supports
well a double dose.

Here it is,
feigning concern.

Look.

- Isn't he handsome?
- No.

He earns a lot.

Meets all my needs.

He is a noted thief.

After some
successful hits,

We will retire to the field.

In fact, it is very simple.

Now that you're married,
what do you have to do?

Get a divorce!

But I love him!

Aren't you ashamed?

Your novels have
understanding clouded.

Bastard!

When they hang him,

will be surrounded by
half a dozen widows,

each with a
child in his arms.

Hanged?

Great idea!
And we'll gain 40 pounds.

Yes, I know
We will hand over to the sheriff.

The Sheriff had fun
a lot at my wedding.

- What's his name?
- Brown.

But my husband calls him
Jackie, they're friends.

�The Sheriff and the Chief
of thieves!

The best friends in the world.

I'm going to see the sheriff of London.

You, go to the brothel on Drury Lane.

With his whores.

The world is really
an abject place,

and one should not skimp
efforts to do good.

�It's too much to ask,

in this life bitch,

can I give myself to a man?

Is it really too much to ask?

It is said that in this land,
every man can

get to know happiness
In his short life,

that can be enjoyed by everyone
the pleasures of the world,

who can eat bread when
He is hungry and not stones.

They say it is a
right for all.

But, have we seen any
once on this earth

for this to happen here?

Everyone would like it
Your right will be respected,

but that doesn't really happen.

Jackie, you know my father-in-law
he is a despicable guy

that tries to hurt me.

�Scotland Yard has a
file on me?

No, they don't have one on you.

- Anything else?
- Yes, Jackie.

You have to reduce the
number of officials,

it is almost impossible to carry
carry out our business.

To "spread" a dozen
of whippersnappers with clubs,

we had to fill
17 forms.

grandmother's name,
hobbies, languages you speak...

We cannot eliminate
all officials,

They are very bad.

So we need
three times more.

But I could create
a new service,

which is not the same

than eliminating positions.

I could create it

if they assigned me
200 or 300 employees.

Well...

If you see Mackie, the Razor
these days here,

Find a police officer and report him.

Do you think we are going to see it?

If you know they are looking for you,
I won't come here.

You know very well, Jenny,

that Mackie is not a man who

change your habits
for so little.

I beg you to stop
a man named Macheath.

He is a gangster and a murderer.

For this same reason, the mayor
from London could be arrested.

Scotland Yard does not have
charges against this gentleman.

The police cannot intervene.

Can't the police intervene?

Then it would be committing
a terrible injustice.

The coronation parade
could be affected.

What does it mean?

I would like to remind you
a historical fact

that goes back
to the year 1400 B.C.

The coronation parade
of Queen Semiramis

was sabotaged by
a series of incidents

caused by a
small part of the town

that sowed chaos.

To historians always
it has horrified them

the punishment that Semiramis
imposed on the police chief.

She threw him

snakes

on the chest.

Really?

God help you, Brown.

When it is sacrificed

to the poor lamb,

Butchers often
They work together to cut it.

And when a dispute arises

among the butchers,

it is the police
who acts as a referee.

I wrote this for the movie.

September 15, 1930

"The Reichstag elections
they give 18.3% to the NSDAR

with 107 deputies,
9 times more than what they had.

The police and the State

They protect these criminals.

exactly like
Tiger Brown and Macheath.

They let them boycott
our representations.

Hitler only returns to
paint facades.

-He provides the paint.
- Like in our movie.

I'm sick of
these movie people.

They only require a minimum

of imagination, ingenuity, humor.

Faced with the logic of the plot,

everything they want
is that the public follows it.

The recipe for success
cinematographic:

doing a little is enough.

You need to rest.

I'll take care of the moving
and the apartment.

And I about the manuscripts.

What the hell are you doing?

I write the
painting song.

Because of his conflict with Peachum,
Mackie has to hide.

Like the queen's parade
will pass by Old Oak Street,

this nest of criminals must
become a daycare.

The police sing,
brush in hand.

When the walls are
crumble and rot

we must intervene
without a doubt.

And it's so decrepit,
so horrible.

It's better that no one sees it.

�Let's give it
a coat of paint

to hide the misery!

Just like Peachum turns
his men into beggars,

the sordid alley is transformed
with a coat of paint and props.

Landfills become
in a playground.

The Drury Lane Prostitutes
They are "evacuated" from their brothel.

The girls of an orphanage
They will greet the Queen when she passes.

Let's go!

Mr. Peachum
enters the scene.

The beggars look out between
the plants and the painted walls.

Inspection ends
with a false note.

Our adversaries

are devoid of any
form of morality and dignity.

I advise you to disappear.

Poor Polly.

This will serve as a lesson for you.

I don't approve of your work.
I know all your misdeeds.

More than 30 robberies, 23 assaults,

fires, murders...

And those two sisters, minors
of age, whom you seduced.

They claimed to be 18 years old.

Can't you change your profession?

�Become
banker, for example?

We have been for a while
testing the National Bank.

No, not that way.

You could buy it.

Me?

If we buy the bank or
my father puts his money...

The banking sector is the
safer and more profitable.

If I have to hide,
you will run the business.

Kiss your poor Polly

and swear that you will not see
no other woman.

Polly,

I don't care about those crybabies.

I only love you.

Goodbye, Mac.

Goodbye, Polly.

"My coffee!"

My coffee.

Weren't you in Highgate?

Today is Thursday.

I don't change my habits
for this nonsense.

Mac.

When the bells ring
Westminster bells,

your time will come.

Long before
govern the city,

Long before
govern the city...

I lived miserably
with one of you.

And now that I am
Mackie the Razor

I will not forget my
companions of yesteryear

and especially to Jenny,
which was my favorite

of all of you.

In another time,

of which many years have passed,

let's live together

her and me.

Those days have passed,

and they have gone up in smoke.

I protected her,

and she fed me...

In many ways.

When a client came,
I crawled out of bed

to have a drink
meanwhile.

And after paying,
He told the Lord:

"Sir, do not hesitate to come back!"

"We have been living for six months

in this brothel

in which we feel
like at home."

This song

and all "The Opera of the Three
pennies" will be adapted to film.

A nonsense to greater glory
of sex and debauchery.

The world market
You will be astonished.

I will condemn this German film

and will judge that the German people
He has lost all morality.

Listen to this!

In another time, from which
many years passed,

In another time,

of which many years have passed,

but not as dark as

those of us who live today.

We only slept together
during the day.

Because at night,
His bed was occupied.

In general,
It's better at night,

but in the morning
It's not bad either.

Sometimes I would get pregnant.

And we had to change
posture in bed.

So as not to disturb the baby.

�But, in the end
I lost anyway!

And so they passed
quickly six months

in that brothel that
It was our home.

Stop!
They are all detained!

Everyone stay still!

Stop!

Despite his success,
his work has been criticized

and not only for the
nationalists and the SA.

Some say that
They are going to put them on the spot.

What do you think of this?

I will not be intimidated by
reactionary critics.

Any innovative work
awakens a resistance.

They protest against
the film adaptation

because of the songs.
Like "The Ballad of the Pimp."

His vulgarity is scandalous.

We will not improve
the public's taste

eliminating vulgarity.

We will harm the movies.

The vulgarity of the masses.
It has its roots in reality.

My music throws a
different light on the text.

The appeal of this ballad

is that the greenery of the text

is compensated with
the pleasant tone.

My songs take over
an American jazz that is running out.

We can reach an audience
wider than the opera.

His music, therefore,
seeks to reach the public.

That refers to your formula:

"A theater where
"You laugh, it's ridiculous."

And he approaches the cinema,

which Thomas Mann sees as "a
"entertainment wrapped in music."

It's petite bourgeois,

Represents the bourgeois author

of artificial books,
pedantic and useless.

is talking
of a Nobel Prize,

of a prince of literature
praised by critics.

They only think about showing off.

The princes write
for the critics and vice versa,

exchanging with
kindness tasty memories.

They skip the delicacies
subtly spicy,

made over low heat with art.

We can masturbate
or fuck with a condom.

They masturbate
with a condom

Please, Mr. Brecht.

Where is your morale?

In our society,
all strata of the population

moral principles are governed,

but instead of fulfilling them
They only talk about them.

Like Mr. Peachum.

This is what
our movie is about.

THE FIGHT FOR MACHEATH'S HEAD

Gentlemen,

currently working in
our eleven branches,

from Drury Lane to Turnbridge,

1432 men,

on those posters, like you,

to attend the
coronation of the queen.

Let's go! If you want to beg,
Be careful with the posters.

Dear lady.

What pigsty did you come from?

You come for the money
for selling Macheath?

Well, you're not going to take anything.

What? "You're not going to
pay us fees

that you had agreed to by contract
for denouncing Macheath?

Exactly.

You're going to get shit,

instead of yours
30 coins for Judas

And why?

Because that rat
Macheath has escaped.

Well...

This is the last straw.

I'm warning you, hit us.

What is happening?

I hope you don't
you have given anything.

So, ladies,...

Is Macheath in prison?

Shut up!

"It doesn't reach him or the
shoe soles!

That night, I had to say goodbye to
a client because he couldn't leave

of crying, thinking that there was
sold to this gentleman.

Do you know what happened this morning?

I heard a whistle
an hour ago

It was him, on the street.

I wanted to console myself for him
damage that had been done to him.

He is the last knight
from London, ladies.

And if our colleague Suky Tawdry
He is not here with us,

It's because I sent it to your
home to comfort her.

Suky Tawdry.

- Filch!
- Yes.

Run and tell the police

that Mr. Macheath is
relaxing at Suky Tawdry's house.

"But why?"
are we arguing?

They will receive the money,
of course.

My dear Celia,

you should make them a coffee
instead of insulting them.

He's gone!

I know, like in the opera.

- No! Brecht is gone.
- What?

He writes to us from
the French Riviera:

"I no longer want to be in the uncomfortable
position of having to

explain to these
knights of Nero-Film

how to write a script
about my work."

How dare you!

I will sue him for
harm our interests.

Find him and bring a script
that covers my expenses.

The police!

I couldn't get to my position.

Here we are,
Mr. "Beggar's Friend."

Good morning. Brown.
Have you slept well?

Take off his hat.

Confiscate everything
that you find.

Peachum, clean the
city of beggars

Very good!

But what beggars?

All these cripples...

It will only stop

to a group of young people who
they organize a masked ball

in honor of the
coronation of the queen.

If the poor
they really came out,

there would be thousands.

Imagine them sitting
in front of the churches,

They would spoil the party.

All full of boils,

thousands of faces
full of pupae...

Our young queen

I would rather see rosebuds.

And not faces with pustules.

It's a threat.

I have to stop Mackie,
the Navaja, I have understood it.

But I need to find it
to stop it.

Jenny.

Where is Mr. Macheath?

At Suky Tawdry's house.

Hang it before
6 in the morning...

Oh, Mackie!

I can't do anything.

That man is the devil himself,

a butcher among lambs,

a complete scoundrel.
A pimp.

Women are his weak point.

He can't resist them.

Whether you want it or not,

lives under sexual tyranny.

They don't care about the Bible
and the Civil Code.

�He is too selfish.

If he sees a woman, he's screwed,

why stay away
hers is a martyrdom,

the whole day is not enough for him,

at night, again

you have it on you.

�It is original that they pay you with
a car for an ad!

My rhymes are the best!

Imagine the arrest

during a picnic

that Macheath offers
to the girls of drury lane

in the middle of nature.

under an oak
surrounded by his court,

the unhappy man receives
Judas kiss

After a chase

among the police
and the prostitutes,

Mr. Macheath is arrested.

The idea of
persecution is good,

but very expensive.

The industry and the State do not
They will finance your film.

Then we will do a
old-fashioned chase.

"Brecht was traveling at 70 km/h
along a country road

when a truck in front of him

is overtaken by a car.

The trees of the
lower slopes

are bordering a
five meter embankment".

"To avoid the car,

Brecht stamp
your radiator on a tree

and your vehicle
stopped dead."

And this article says what

you managed to emerge unscathed
of this accident?

A new car!

Nice car, Mr. Brecht!

In this capitalist world,

idealists have the
habit of despising money.

I don't swim in gold.

My only income comes from me
work, which brings me very little,

but is freed from
the harmful influence

of financial institutions.

I came to talk about the script.

I ask you to soften
his radical ideas.

His ideas are not radical.

�Capitalism is radical with
6 million unemployed!

And you want to produce
a sentimental kitsch.

I haven't invited him.

If the filming is not
can start,

We will ask for compensation.

"You know what will happen"
If you can't pay?

Well, idiots.

Again in the old hut.

Mac, I couldn't do anything.

Don't look at me like that
your silence is terrifying.

Stop pulling!

Say something, Mac.

Talk to your friend Jackie.

Do not deign
tell me a word

This unhappy Brown and
his bad conscience.

And he intends to lead the police!

I did well not to insult him.

It was enough to look at it to
to shed a tear.

It's a Bible trick.

You have to take out
benefit of the Bible.

My bedside book.

One of the few verses
that many men apply is:

"You will obey your husband."

Adopted by all the fools...
and many intelligent women.

For me it's: "Stumble two
times in the same stone".

Macheath says it too.

But we have work and
Private conflicts exhaust me.

Let's continue.

Okay, let's continue.

"He loves her very much,

"Polly"

"No, he only loves you.

I know.

Very kind

Men are afraid of
love women too much.

I realized that he is
Engaged to you,

in a way,
that I could not suspect.

- You and I love him too much.
- Could be."

Enough! We remove this
part of the opera.

In the beginning, the Bible says,
the word existed.

And this last one seems to me
the most important thing.

Hence this title.

FIRST CLOUD OVER
YOUR YOUNG HAPPINESS.

Fifty.

Here you are!

Disgusting scruples.

Lucy.

Your heart won't break
Seeing your man here?

My man?
Miserable monster.

I am aware of your
story with Polly Peachum.

Lucy!

Aren't you jealous of Polly?

�You got married
with her, bastard!

Married.
Very funny.

I go to his house, I give him a kiss,

and the poor girl

is proclaiming everywhere
that I married her.

Where is my husband?

Mac?

Mac, he's here.

Don't look away,
don't be ashamed.

I am your wife.

Look at us, bastard.

Who is this person?

Tell him I'm your wife.

- Look at me.
- Bastard.

You have two wives, you wretch!

Am I not your wife?

I married a virgin.

Shut up for two minutes!

I will explain it to you.

"Dear Hello,

don't take these things
too seriously,

I don't carry one
life of debauchery.

But I am reluctant to

let my behavior be dictated
for low level gossip.

I live and eat in the hotel.

Elisabeth is in a
mountain refuge.

Carola Neher is in Nice.

Protect Steffi from the sun

and stop smoking.

I guess you have
time to go out there.

"I refuse to remain silent.

- I can't take it anymore.
- But the wife...

-The wife?
-She has certain privileges.

At least in appearance.

These concerns
They will end up driving him crazy.

These worries, that is...

Where did you get it from?

This little minx
is your great conquest?

Your "Venus of Soho"?

�Show yourself, Venus of Soho!

Show your legs.

Show me what you're made of,

they say there is no other like it.

Disgusting bitch.
Yes, you.

Cajoling my man.

Do you think so?

- It's a joke!
- We'll see.

- Let me laugh!
- Then laugh!

- Mac, seduced by you?
- Yes, seduced by me!

��he interested in
a girl like you?

- We will see
- See

Macheath and I

we lived like two lovebirds.

He only loves me,

no one will convince me
otherwise.

How could he abandon me?

Our story is not going to end,

for this garbage...

Ridiculous.

Ridiculous, Helli.

I know.

I am cowardly, indecisive,

unable to break a relationship.

I can't take it anymore
these adventures.

I'll write to you, it's easier.

He is like that.

My wife also has friends.

He says he doesn't take
good with women.

Well maybe they are
something more than friends!

My wife too
has a friend

We know it, we both.

She feels abandoned
with all your stories.

Bidi!

Orge says that his place
Favorite is the bathroom.

"We're fine here,

up the stars,
Down with the shit."

We will clean before
put the table back.

From Nero-Films.

Given your refusal
to change the work,

They fire you as a screenwriter.

- I'll go to trial.
- Me too.

For the music.

We must protect
to authors and their art

from the harmful world of cinema.

The company invested
800,000 marks.

On the other hand,
you have a contract

and rights.
Guess who will win...

That's the paradox
that we are going to demonstrate.

We'll bet everything on that.

What if we lose?

will show that
They reject their own ideology.

This judgment must
talk about reality,

of justice, the press,
the industry that finances art.

We rarely have the
opportunity to confront them.

The idea is great.

A writer puts on stage
the society of his time.

Nobody has done it before.

Let's say it's a
sociological experience.

October 17, 1930
Beginning of the trial.

Let the interested parties
have freedom of movement.

The plaintiff Bertolt Brecht

urges production company Nero-Films

to give up adapting to the cinema

"The Threepenny Opera"

if you don't use the script
provided by the plaintiff.

I have the right and the duty
to protect my job,

Its content,
its style and its title.

How to protect a work

that has been sold
to a producer?

Mr. Brecht wanted to give
"The Threepenny Opera"

a certain political color that,

beyond the
censorship problems,

does not respect our
neutral position.

I wanted to prevent the work
became a trifle.

He said he didn't care
capital or censorship.

Not even the bankruptcy of the production company.

That is unacceptable.

The movie is
addressed to an audience

who doesn't care
philosophical reasoning.

It's less of a question
of philosophy than of reality.

The philosophy and
the study of reality

They are as distant as
masturbation and love.

We'll have to see the play.

I will see you in the
Schiffbauerdamm theater.

Have mercy on me,
Macheath is in a bind,

a reversal of fortune
He threw it at the bottom of a well.

Receive his message,

the walls imprison him.

�My friends,
worry about me!

If you don't toast on my grave.

Come save me,

don't let him hit her.

A whole life...

in which we understood each other
with a simple look.

Three years in India,

George was there,
and also Jim.

Five years in London,
And this is what I get?

Here hangs Macheath,
that he didn't hurt anyone.

A false friend betrayed him.

With the rope around my neck,
He will feel the weight of his betrayal.

If you think like that,
If you attack my honor...

- Your honor!
- Of course.

Your Lord Judge!

"The Threepenny Opera"
It is not an original work,

is the adaptation of the
"Beggar's Opera."

Furthermore,

The verses he sings
Macheath are not by Brecht

but from François Villon,
translation by K. L. Ammer.

Well?

Many boast
to write works

built with poor materials
that they themselves carry.

They ignore the buildings
bigger.

What an individual is
able to build.

Beautiful.

But I took out Ammer.

Discovered the fact,
I only recognized

having forgotten
cite your sources.

He jumps into the bullfighter

the right of
intellectual property.

�Property problems

happen when a neighbor
gets on your property!

I agree with Ammer.

I refuse to talk about
property rights.

Copyright
They are from another era

and they are surpassed.

My copyright
I care as much as

those of the spectator

who has the right to
see the complete work.

I do not defend the
author of an idea,

I prefer that it benefits everyone,

let it circulate, let it be exploited.

I suggest that

use the "Beggar's Opera"
with our songs.

But don't title the movie
"The Threepenny Opera."

Silence.

But we acquire
the rights

of the work and the title.

This work...

Continue.

We don't want to make them wait.

Ladies and gentlemen,

they are going to see the end of a member
of a class in danger.

We, artisans
of the petite bourgeoisie,

that we force the box
merchant register,

we are being swallowed by the great
industry supported by banks.

What is the difference between a
gang and a bank action?

What is the difference between a robbery
banking and the creation of a bank?

What is the difference between the
murder of a man and his hiring?

This diatribe is not
I was at work.

It's an addition.

But it is the future, so it will be.

It's monstrous.

�A gangster turned into
banker knows what he's talking about!

It is useless to talk about art
with these gentlemen.

Silence.

Brecht is constantly
reworking their texts.

Always.

I integrated this diatribe
In later work,

It's part of her.

I would like to see the end and,

if possible, without interruption.

The execution.

�Listen who is coming,
the Royal messenger!

On the occasion of his coronation,

the queen orders

immediate release
by Captain Macheath.

�Saved!

�Saved!

�I knew it!

When the situation
It's desperate,

salvation always comes.

We have to change everything.
Even the ending.

The public has understood it
and applauded.

The judge and the lawyers
They perform a judicial play.

It doesn't matter what it is
the trial result,

We will make the movie without them.

Banking has changed hands.

The bankers acquired
his fortune through crime.

They rob a bank,
before founding his own.

A woman must be
personification of this change.

In her recklessness, Polly
has known absolute happiness.

She becomes a woman
active, realistic and wise.

She presides over the assembly
general of the Macheath Gang

who decides to buy the
National Bank. Why?

Times change.

I think we'll get away
with ours.

It's not my business,

but can a woman...

at a time like this...

I don't doubt that you...

Kind of mangy dog,
you start wrong...

Be careful, otherwise,
these gentlemen

They will tear off your skin in strips.

Is it not so, gentlemen?

Bravo! The woman of
Captain, you speak very well.

Long live Polly!

At the same time,

Mrs. Peachum,
drunk as always,

is sitting with
the dogs and sam

who smokes a cigarette butt
street pickup.

Peachum is right.
I'm just a poor cripple.

We can do much better.

The talent

It's what I miss.

I wish I could be indispensable.

What they said:

"Where's Sam,
"We need it."

"How lucky you are here."

Release Mr. Macheath,

the new owner
of the National Bank.

If I release it, the poor neighborhoods

They will rebel against the police.

And they will sabotage the
coronation of the queen.

The police cannot act if
The misery is too great.

So we will have to
take measures against poverty.

- How?
- Strengthening the police.

PLAY WITH FIRE

Influential people have
advised to the police

let them face
to our demands.

The liberation of
banker Macheath

will take place first
time of night.

Let's go!
Troop in formation!

Sam, you're coming too.

"Forward, the poorest
of the homeless!

You're a genius, Peachum.

But don't go too far.

You appeal to poverty.

But don't forget that
This is immense.

I'll tell them it's time
to settle accounts.

But with whom?

Be careful of
Don't ask us for anything.

I'll think about it.

I often make threats,

but this time I'm serious.

It could turn against me.

I can only tell
with the police.

But will it arrive on time?

During this night of vigil,

the police chief wanders,
anxious, through the streets

who will see the procession pass

to the joy of all.

Under the bridge,
see the shapeless heaps

of the crudest misery.

Among them, Sam, the amputee,

who is already starting to dream.

Just like we can't help
that someone wants to take revenge,

He dreams of great turmoil.

Poverty is discredited.

The useful puts on the stripes,

stupidity loses its power,

brutality no longer pays.

When I carried you in my womb,

things here were no longer going well.

I often thought that
the child I was waiting for

I would be born into a miserable world.

And I was worried

Lullaby of
A PROLETARIAN MOTHER

And I was worried

could lose it.

The child I carried in me
belly will have to help

make this world
a better place.

And I saw bread in the shop windows,

but the hungry do not
They had the right to eat it.

The child I carried in me
belly will have to keep silent and bow down

if you want to eat that bread...

Everyone in training

The SA march
with sure step...

At the call of the butcher,

the calf closes its eyes

and walk with sure steps.

The calves whose
blood has already flowed

they accompany him in thought,

everyone in formation.

They are not calves,

They are butchers.

They were deceived,
and we let it happen.

An abandoned calf can
be easily deceived.

Even by his executioner.

They are going to massacre us.

The theaters are closing.

The threat is growing.

Weill received a
message in your mailbox

in which
They called him a dirty Jew.

We received a visit from five SA.

The cross they carry
on your red flag

It is not that of the poor.

It's all this is what it should
denounce with art

and in reality.

Sentence handed down
by the Berlin court.

The complaint was dismissed.

The costs of the trial are borne
borne by the plaintiff.

Silence!

Reasons for the sentence.

The accused respects the work.

The author must tolerate

the adaptation of his work.
It is not established

that these changes are
of a serious nature.

Therefore, the complaint
is dismissed.

What do you think of the trial?

I wanted to show that it is impossible

deal with the film industry.

This is the test.
I have lost my mind.

A sum of 800,000
frames for an artist

who defends his ideals:
Could this be a historical process?

We see how the works of the spirit
They become commodities.

When you go to the cinema,

they will know that the movie

is a product of a world
where everything is merchandise.

Kurt Weill won his trial.

Are you going to appeal?

It's the money, not the law,
which will prevent me from doing it.

He remembered what he could do
a film of my work,

what will be "The movie of
threepence."

Thank you.

His statements have raised
and have been the subject of much debate.

The ending is different from the work.

How will your movie end?

The police chief watching the
raw misery under the bridge,

has a dream

THE DREAM OF THE POLICE CHIEF

Something is moving,
spreads at full speed,

crosses the parapet of the bridge.

It's misery

that advances in training.

A great wave that advances
over the sleeping city.

Gentlemen, today you see me washing
glasses and making beds.

They give me a penny,
and I thank you.

You can see my rags
and this tattered hotel

But they don't know
Who are they talking to?

But one night
You will hear screams in the port,

they will see me smile
behind my glasses

and you will wonder why I smile.

A ship with eight sails

and fifty cannons

will dock at the port.

They tell me to wash the glasses
for a penny,

I take the coin, I make the bed,

where no one will sleep,

and they still don't know who I am...

One afternoon, the port will be full
with an unknown roar,

they will see me looking out the window

you will wonder from where
comes this malicious smile.

And the ship with eight sails.

And fifty cannons

he will fire on the city.

They will descend to
land by hundreds,

they will advance close to the walls

they will capture everyone
the inhabitants of the city,

they will chain them and
They will appear before me

wondering
How many must die.

One afternoon,
everything will be silent

in the port, and they will ask me

who must die,

and they will hear me say:

�Everyone!

And as heads roll

I will say:

�Another!

This type of dream
They have their consequences.

The police chief decides
sacrifice Macheath.

He meets Mr. Peachum,
whom his wife had warned.

They will come out of the slums,

And who are they going to blame?

They will hang Mr. Macheath,

and they will lynch the police chief.

-As for the queen...
- What?

Will he spare our lives?

What will they do?

It can be painful.

They agree.

We have a common enemy.

The people under the bridge.

The real misery.

And Mr. Macheath?

He knows that the gangsters form
part of an endangered class

and has become a banker.

The acquisition of the Bank
National for his band

holds a promising future
for the next generations.

I have written a text,

you will compose the music.

The acquisition of the bank

It materializes in an image.

It's not cool to create a bank.

Everyone thinks
which is great.

Whoever does not inherit one
fortune must build one.

Therefore,
stocks are better

than revolvers or knives.

The only significant problem:

Initial capital required.

When the money runs out,

�where to find it without stealing?

Let's not argue,

How do bankers do it?

Money comes from somewhere.

We will have to
take it away from someone.

THE MESSENGERS
OF MR. MACHEATH

We will have to
take it away from someone.

The messengers of
National Bank meet

under police protection,
the hero's bail.

But you are very thin!

I'm the one who fucks the ladies

in the absence of the boss.

A united society
for the same fight

receives into his bosom
Banker Macheath.

Saved!

Saved!

When the situation
It's desperate,

Salvation always comes.

My dear Macheath
is saved,

I'm so happy.

�Mr. Macheath!

I wouldn't say that your
marriage with my daughter

It would suit me particularly.

But I've changed my mind

taking a look at
their businesses.

They are going to return to
talk about corruption

and will suggest that the Secretary
of State has been bribed.

They love the fact that

let's not respect
the law enough.

Jackie,

there is no need
to evade the law,

It is enough to apply the law.

This legal machine is ideal,

perfectly adapted.

If we apply it
a smart way,

We will not take any risk.

In my opinion,

we don't have the people
adequate at the top of the State.

They all belong to a party.

The parties are selfish.

we need men
above the parties,

like us.
Businessmen.

we have to get

that businessmen are
good businessmen,

the employees, good employees,

the rich, good rich,

and the poor, good poor.

I am convinced

that we will see the arrival
of such a society.

I will be one of your artisans.

(Brecht's original voice)
To those who come after.

Truly, I'm living
in a dark time.

Any harmless speech
is out of place.

A full uniform front
anger surrounds us.

He who laughs,

is that it has not yet
heard the terrible news.

What times are these?

in which to talk about trees
seems like something criminal

since it is equivalent to
silence so many evils?

Where do you cross the street running?

so they don't come near you
friends in trouble?

It's true,

I still make a living,

but it's pure coincidence.

None of my activities

It allows me to eat until I'm satisfied.

For the moment, I'm safe,

But if my luck changes,
will be lost.

I would like to show wisdom,

that which is taught
in old books,

who stays away from
the disputes of the world,

that makes you pass without fear,
the little time one has,

living without violence,

returning evil for good.

Forget your own desires,
instead of satisfying them,

That is considered wise.

But I can't.

Actually, I live in
a dark time

Why didn't you do it?
"The Threepenny Movies"?

The political evolution of the country
It prevented me from staying there.

Before the wave of
violence and censorship,

I felt useless.

They promised me to "escape"
of the fury of the people

locking myself in a field
specially designed,

but I knew it wasn't
out of deference to me.

I left the country and traveled.

We hit rock bottom,

that was the best part.

Do you believe that your work has had an impact?
in the following generations?

We have been precursors,

nothing significant
has arisen later.

But, dear public,
judge for yourself.

You have to try the dish
to know if it's good.

Do you think your work is understood?

I'm afraid to continue being him
author who wrote this verse:

Eat first, then morals!

He wrote other verses
for the movie,

a new ending
Can we hear it?

It's just a proposal,

but if you keep it in your memory,
It will be a great honor.

Okay

what ends well.

It couldn't have turned out better.

As long as the money is there,

we always manage
to get ahead.

Because while some

they live in the shadows,

the others

they sunbathe.

We see those who live
in broad daylight,

but we do not see the
who live in darkness.

Surprise!