Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny backdrop

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Directed by François Roussillon

Starring Nikolai Schukoff, Karita Mattila

Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism and the inexorable industrialization of a society in which the ultimate crime is not having money