The Beggar's Opera (1991)

1h 34m
Running Time

October 1, 1991
Release Date

The Beggar's Opera (1991)

1h 34m
Running Time

October 1, 1991
Release Date

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Network & Production Companies
Filmové studio Barrandov

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.

Rudolf Beneš

Rudolf Beneš

Props

Miloslav Dvořák

Miloslav Dvořák

Props

Tomáš Kuchta

Tomáš Kuchta

Makeup & Hair

Aleš Kocián

Aleš Kocián

Makeup & Hair

Tereza Kolihová

Tereza Kolihová

Makeup & Hair

Petr Blažek

Petr Blažek

Makeup & Hair

Eva Horázná

Eva Horázná

Assistant Editor

Jiří Hora

Jiří Hora

Sound

Mstislav Pilný

Mstislav Pilný

Sound Assistant

Jan Hadrbolec

Jan Hadrbolec

Unit Production Manager

Jan Peterka

Jan Peterka

Production Accountant

Roman Molnár

Roman Molnár

Assistant Production Manager

Pavel Štěrba

Pavel Štěrba

Assistant Production Manager

Eva Blažková

Eva Blažková

Clapper Loader

Soňa Nemcová

Soňa Nemcová

Clapper Loader

Jiří Půlpán

Jiří Půlpán

Gaffer

Filip Minařík

Filip Minařík

Jan Morávek

Jan Morávek

Martin Morávek

Martin Morávek

Václav Kotva

Václav Kotva

Steva Maršálek

Steva Maršálek

Details.

Release Date
October 1, 1991

Original Name
Žebrácká opera

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 34m

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