Movie Description
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
(2011)Overview
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 and the inexorable industrialisation of a society in which the ultimate crime is not having money. In twenty scenes the authors tell the story of a city lost in the middle of a desert and run by three thugs; in Mahagonny food, sex, gambling and violence rule supreme.
Featured Crew
- Director : Andy Sommer
- Producer : François Duplat
- Writer : Bertolt Brecht
- Cast : Jane Henschel,Donald Kaasch,Willard White,Measha Brueggergosman,Michael König,John Easterlin,Otto Katzameier,Steven Humes
Cast
Leocadia Begbick
Fatty "the Bookkeeper"
Trinity Moses
Jenny Smith
Jim MacIntyre
Jack O'Brien / Tobby Higgins
Bank-Account Bill
Alaska-Wolf Joe
Posters
Facts
Original TitleThe Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Status Released
Release Information
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2011-11-15
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 02h 18m
Homepagehttps://belairclassiques.com/film/weill-rise-and-fall-of-the-city-of-mahagonny-fura-dels-baus-dvd-blu-ray?lang=en
Production CompaniesBel Air Classiques,Teatro Real de Madrid
Genres
- Music
- Drama
