Film

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

2011 · 2h 18m · Music · Drama

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.

Jane Henschel

Leocadia Begbick

Donald Kaasch

Fatty "the Bookkeeper"

Willard White

Trinity Moses

Measha Brueggergosman

Jenny Smith

Michael König

Jim MacIntyre

John Easterlin

Jack O'Brien / Tobby Higgins

Otto Katzameier

Bank-Account Bill

Steven Humes

Alaska-Wolf Joe

• Andy SommerDirector
• Bertolt BrechtWriter
• François DuplatProducer

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny | La Fura dels Baus | Teatro Real 2010 (DVD/Blu-ray trailer)

Release date

November 15, 2011

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

2h 18m

Genres

Music, Drama