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Dreigroschenfilm (2018)
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Dreigroschenfilm (2018)
Original name: Mackie Messer - Brechts Dreigroschenfilm
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Following the phenomenal success of “The Threepenny Opera”, the film industry wants to win over the celebrated author. But Bertolt Brecht is not prepared to play by their rules. His concept of the “Threepenny Film” is radical, uncompromising, political, and incisive.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political, grotesque
Plot: beggar, life is a bitch, fighting the system, film industry, social problems, problem, filmmaking, filmmaker, movie business, film producer, social issues, lawyer, nazi, dark humor, wedding, writers, court, nazism, cinema, capitalism, reflection, law, breaking the fourth wall, singing in a car
Time: 1920s, year 1933, year 1929
Place: london, berlin germany

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The Best of All Worlds (2017)
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Duration: 100 min.
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1st Time 16mm (2008)
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Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
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