The Beggar's Opera (1991)
1h 34m
Running Time
October 1, 1991Release Date
The Beggar's Opera (1991)
1h 34m
Running Time
October 1, 1991Release Date
Plot.
Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay. Composers and writers have penned variations on it ever since. The most famous of these was A Threepenny Opera by Bertholt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Some things these compositions share in common is their setting among the poor and criminal classes, and the roguish character Macheath. This production is based on an adaptation of Gay's original by Vaclav Havel the freedom-fighter, writer and philosopher who became the first (and only) president of the united post-communist country of Czechoslovakia, and it retains many traces of its theatrical origins. Film reviewers were not too tolerant of what they called "slavish adherence" to the noted Czech writer's stage production, but theater, philosophy and history buffs may feel otherwise.
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Cast & Crew.

Josef Abrhám
Macheath

Mahulena Bočanová
Vicky

Jana Břežková
Mary Lockit

Libuše Šafránková
Jenny

Petr Brukner

Jeremy Irons
Prisoner

Nina Divíšková
Elizabeth Peachum

Veronika Freimanová
Lucy

Kateřina Frýbová
Diana

Jiří Zahajský
Kapsár Harry Filch

Oldřich Vízner
Jim, Mackuv komplic

Ondřej Vetchý
Jack, Mackuv komplic

Rudolf Hrušínský
Policeman

Rudolf Hrušínský
Policeman / Lockit

Naďa Kotršová
Ingrid

Marián Labuda
Peachum
Details.
Release DateOctober 1, 1991
Original NameŽebrácká opera
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 34m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
based on play or musical
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