i and after perform the threepenny opera and playing in a german cabaret duo and spend $ 100 on kw book have to see this film . i search from the sky to the bottom of a very very deep crevace and it be there in the music room on the shelf . yoinkafter watch it and my love for kurt weill music be once again rekindle . no other composer in the past century have ever be perform and interpret as much a kw . every musician take a different slant on him represent the door and pj harvey and elvis costello and tom wait and radiohead and the dresden doll and nick cave and lou reed and so many more . this movie be basically a collaboration of heap of modern musician take different slant on his music set in a broken down warehouse . if you want a basic idea of what it like think bertolt brecht verse a a rap and september song a a country and western ( shudder ) and happy end number a strange insane interpretive piece and and the alabama song a a strange rock piece . brilliant . throughout the movie it explain kw suppression in a fascist society and him be communist and his move to america and his love life and and of course his musical revolution with small narrated interlude interpretively very well do . i await the dvd . in my opinion and kurt weill be the great thing that have ever happen to musical theatre and ever . he create revolution and not in a sex pistol kinda way . it be intelligent . a must see for all revolutionist and musician . kurt weill shall rise again .