The 3 Penny Opera

“Let the fantasy take you far, far away...”

Why would a London crime lord marry the daughter of the city's king of the beggars, and keep it from the man who runs the street trade in misery? Mack the Knife (Rudolf Forster) weds Polly Peachum (Carola Neher) in secret, and her father (Fritz Rasp) is the kind of man who organizes the poor for profit. G.W. Pabst films Mackie as a man too pleased with himself to notice how many people now want his money, his wife, or his neck.