Kurt Weill Filmography

Born:: March 2, 1900 in Dessau, Germany
Occupation:: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter, Featured Music, From Opera by, From Musical by

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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Crew: From Opera by

Actors: Audra McDonald, Patti LuPone, Anthony Dean Griffey

Synopsis: The Los Angeles Opera mounted this stage production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahoganny (AKA Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny), translated by Michael Feingold and starring Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Anthony Dean Griffey and Robert Wörle. John Read More

2007
Lotte Lenya and Gisela May: Theater Music of Brecht & Weill

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Lotte Lenya, Gisela May

Synopsis: This release features performances of songs from different Brecht/Weill collaborations from the 1950s throught the '70s as sung by Lotte Lenya, Gisela May, Martha Schlamme, and Will Holt . Some of the songs performed include "Pirate Jenny," "Mack the Knife," "Alabama Song," and "Ballad of the Read More

2005
Street Scene

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: Kurt Weill and Langston Hughes' Street Scene is a panorama of life in a Lower East Side Manhattan neighborhood that's a mixture of many different nationalities and ethnicities, including Italian, Swedish, and Russian. It begins with a number of women complaining about the sweltering heat, but soon Read More

1995
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, Betty Carter

Synopsis: This Canadian documentary profiles the work of German music-theater icon Kurt Weill, who created such enduring shows as Threepenny Opera. Most of the film offers various performers singing or reciting his songs. Among those appearing are jazz diva Betty Carter, the Brodsky String Quartet, Elvis Costello Read More

1995
Kika

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Verónica Forqué, Peter Coyote, Victoria Abril, Alex Casanovas, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: Spanish director Pedro Almodovar returns to his recurring framework of offbeat sexuality and death with this colorful comedy. Kika (Veronica Forque) is a Madrid makeup artist who falls in love with Ramon (Alex Casanovas), a dead man whose face Kika is hired to prepare for a funeral. Kika's Read More

1993
The Seven Deadly Sins

Crew: From Opera by

Synopsis: In this production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's final collaboration, Peter Sellars inter-cuts footage he personally shot in on-location in America with original footage of the stage performance to achieve a striking visual effect. Teresa Stratas and Nora Kimball star, and conductor Kent Read More

1993
Shadows and Fog

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, Kathy Bates, Madonna, Lily Tomlin, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and Death Read More

3/20/92
Mack the Knife

Crew: From Musical by

Actors: Raul Julia, Richard Harris, Julia Migenes, Roger Daltrey, Julie Walters

Synopsis: This film adaptation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's musical play The Threepenny Opera portrays the engagement of a gangster (Raul Julia) to an innocent girl (Rachel Robertson) in Victorian-era London. The girl's family attempts to thwart the marriage by catching the thief in the act. ~ John Read More

2/2/90
Johnny Be Good

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Robert Downey, Jr., Paul Gleason, Uma Thurman, Steve James

Synopsis: Johnny Walker (Anthony Michael Hall) is a hot-shot high-school quarterback who receives intoxicating offers from spirited college recruiters in this adolescent teen comedy. Bathroom humor and sight gags are strung together in a story involving booze, broads, and other benefits for the coveted Read More

3/25/88
The Big Town

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The Big Town is Chicago, circa 1957. Matt Dillon stars as a small-town crapshooter who heads to the Windy City to seek his fortune. There he becomes the pawn of two high-rolling professional gamblers, played by Lee Grant and Bruce Dern. He later gets mixed up in a revenge scheme cooked up by Diane Lane Read More

9/25/87
Radio Days

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Mia Farrow, Seth Green, Julie Kavner, Josh Mostel, Michael Tucker

Synopsis: Woody Allen's gentle and nostalgic tribute to the glory days of radio and coming-of-age during World War II plays like Fellini's Amarcord filtered through Neil Simon. The nominal star is Seth Green as Joe, a teenage Jewish boy, growing up with a house full of relatives in Brooklyn. Allen cuts Read More

1/30/87
Mahagonny

Crew: From Opera by

1980
Lost in the Stars

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Brock Peters

Synopsis: Lost in the Stars was an American Film Theatre adaptation of the musical play by Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill--which in turn was based on the Alain Paton novel Cry the Beloved Country. Brock Peters portrays a South African minister who goes to the Big City to locate his son Raymond St. Jacques Read More

1974
Die Dreigroschenoper

Crew: From Opera by

Actors: Sammy Davis, Jr., Curd Jürgens, June Ritchie, Hildegarde Neff

Synopsis: Hampered by over-orchestrated music, smeary color photography and (in the English version at least) poor dubbing, this 1963 French/German adaptation of the Kurt Weill-Bertolt Brecht piece The Three Penny Opera nonetheless has its attractions. Not least of these is the central performance of Curt Jurgens Read More

1962
September Affair

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Joseph Cotten, Françoise Rosay, Jessica Tandy, Robert Arthur

Synopsis: With location scenes lensed in Italy, September Affair is consistently good to look at, even when the pacing flags and the dialogue becomes too verbose. Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten star as married couple Manina and David. Trouble is, they're not married to each other. Through a series of Read More

1950
One Touch of Venus

Crew: From Musical by

Actors: Robert Walker, Ava Gardner, Dick Haymes, Eve Arden, Olga San Juan

Synopsis: The spirit of love is back, and she's working in retail in this bubbly romantic musical comedy. Eddie Hatch (Robert Walker) is a window dresser at a large department store; he's become especially fond of one of his mannequins who looks like the sort of girl he'd like to meet, and one night he Read More

1948
Where Do We Go from Here?

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Joan Leslie, June Haver, Gene Sheldon, Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: In this engagingly silly musical fantasy from the waning days of WW2, Fred MacMurray stars as Bill, who wants to serve his country but has been classified 4-F. While working at a local USO, Bill falls in love with the fickle Lucilla (June Haver, soon to be Mrs. Fred MacMurray), never realizing Read More

1945
Knickerbocker Holiday

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling, Shelley Winters, Ernest Cossart, Johnnie Davis, Percy Kilbride

Synopsis: 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 (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyvesant is hardly the fun-loving type, and one of Read More

1944
The Lady in the Dark

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Jon Hall, Warner Baxter, Barry Sullivan

Synopsis: Freely adapted from a successful Broadway musical by Moss Hart, this story stars Ginger Rogers as Liza Elliott, the editor of a popular fashion magazine. Despite her beauty, wealth, and success in business, Liza is unhappy and out of sorts. And while three men are vying for her affections Read More

1944
The Goldwyn Follies

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Adolphe Menjou, The Ritz Brothers [Al, Jimmy, Harry], Vera Zorina, Kenny Baker, Andrea Leeds

Synopsis: A longtime admirer of Broadway impresario Flo Ziegfeld, Hollywood producer Sam Goldwyn hoped to emulate the success of The Ziegfeld Follies by producing an annual movie-musical revue. Goldwyn's dream began and ended with 1938's Goldwyn Follies, a film centering on Goldwyn-like movie producer Read More

1938
Blockade

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda, Leo Carrillo, John Halliday, Vladimir Sokoloff

Synopsis: Since the United States was officially neutral in the Spanish Civil War, the struggle of the Loyalists against Franco's forces didn't find much favor in Hollywood; this drama, produced by Walter Wanger, was one of the few films to deal with the conflict, albeit in watered-down terms. Marco (Henry Fonda Read More

1938
You and Me

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Robert Cummings, Barton MacLane, Roscoe Karns

Synopsis: This film is one of acclaimed director Fritz Lang's less noted achievements, a mixture of romance, comedy, drama, and satire. It includes three songs by the famed Kurt Weill, including "The Right Guy for Me." George Raft plays Joe Dennis, an ex-convict working in a department store. The store's Read More

1938
The Threepenny Opera

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rudolf Forster, Margo Lion, Carola Neher, Albert Prejean, Lotte Lenya, Gaston Modot, Ernst Busch, Valeska Gert, Fritz Rasp

Synopsis: Filmmaker G.W. Pabst's adaptation of Bertoldt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera (Die Dreisgoschenoper) is every bit as good as the stage original, and sometimes even better. Filmed in both German and French versions with different casts (a planned English-language version was abandoned), Threepenny Read More

1931