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
Petr Brukner
Libuše Šafránková
Prostitutka Jenny
Jeremy Irons
Prisoner
Nina Divíšková
Elizabeth Peachum
Veronika Freimanová
Lucy
Kateřina Frýbová
Diana
Jiří Zahajský
Kapsár Harry Filch
Rudolf Hrušínský
Policeman
Oldřich Vízner
Jim, Mackuv komplic
Rudolf Hrušínský
Policeman / Lockit
Ondřej Vetchý
Jack, Mackuv komplic
Naďa Kotršová
Ingrid
Marián Labuda
Peachum
Details.
Release DateOctober 1, 1991
Original NameŽebrácká opera
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 34m
Genres
Wiki.
The Opera du gueux (Žebrácká opera) is a Czechoslovak film directed by Jiří Menzel, released in 1991. It is the adaptation of the play of the same name as Václav Havel (1975), itself inspired by the opera The Beggar's Opera by John Gay (1728).
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