Samuel Beckett

04 de set. de 1965

Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbi...

10 de set. de 2000

Manoel de Oliveira plays his film in three stages: the first part - a play, the second can be roughly defined as a silent film (with the behind the...

25 de set. de 1986

Endgame tells the story of Hamm, who is reduced to living in one room, in which he sits blind and chair-bound. His only escape from his solitary wo...

14 de abr. de 2023

Winnie, a woman in her fifties, is buried waist-deep in a mound of scorched earth, with just a large, black shopping bag and a collapsed parasol. B...

25 de jun. de 1980

A performance of Samuel Beckett's 'Endgame', a play in which nothing happens, once - unlike Beckett's first play 'Waiting for Godot' in which nothi...

01 de jan. de 1989

The land is filled with people in urns chattering at top speed, but only to themselves, not to one another. The focus goes to three people: a man, ...

14 de jul. de 2001

An autocratic Director (Harold Pinter) and his Assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon) put the final touches to the last scene of some kind of dramatic present...

01 de set. de 2001

Two derelicts, Vladimir and Estragon, occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate.

01 de jan. de 1961

An experimental exploration of the storied play. Becket’s vision of perpetual uncertainty, anxiety, and loneliness is refracted through our current...

06 de mai. de 2021

A young woman sits down in a chair. Only her mouth is visible as she begins to speak at a rapid clip, describing events that she insists did not re...

01 de fev. de 2000

An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's absurdist drama. An ordinary woman lives her humdrum life half-buried in a pile of dirt; her husband is partially...

31 de ago. de 2000

03 de jun. de 1989

A female voice identifies a lone man in a room. The shots cut closer, revealing he is holding a cassette recorder, playing Beethoven's "Ghost" Pian...

17 de abr. de 1977

Krapp’s Last Tape: James Hayes uses his natural Irish accent to deliver the best known of these works, a meditation on ageing. He plays the eponym...

07 de ago. de 2020

A lonely man is taunted by the voice of a woman he once knew.

12 de set. de 1979

There are five survivors in a futuristic library. Bam is their supreme dictator, and has the others interrogated and tortured, believing them to ha...

08 de set. de 2000

04 de fev. de 2001

A reader tells a sad story to a listener, who only knocks in response.

02 de abr. de 2002

May, wrapped in tatters, paces back and forth engaging in conversation with the disembodied voice of her mother. In the second scene, May's voice b...

24 de abr. de 2000

Nacht und Träume (Night and Dreams) is the last television play written and directed by Samuel Beckett and broadcast on 19th May 1983. It is a word...

19 de mai. de 1983

The camera swoops down on a circular area, seemingly suspended in space. It is filled with medical waste and other trash. A labored exhalation is h...

01 de jan. de 2001

An old woman in a rocking chair listens to a disembodied voice (her own) that recounts her life and that of her mother's. When the voice stops, she...

01 de jan. de 2000

Two bureaucrats discuss the potential suicide of a man standing perfectly still in front of a door that opens into the night sky and a fatal drop.

01 de jan. de 2000

An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's short play from 1965. Three women meet on a bench; they reminisce about their old school days and whisper terribl...

01 de jan. de 2000

An adaptation of the Beckett play

01 de jan. de 1966

A man attempts to remain hidden from view from the camera and other eyes.

04 de abr. de 1979

A documentary made at the set up of a theater production, of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", directed by Jan Jönson, played by prisoners, at ...

09 de out. de 1988

In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from t...

08 de set. de 2000

Performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 16th January, 1973 Produced for the BBC in 1977 by Tristram Powell Directed by Anthony Page and Samuel Be...

27 de nov. de 1973

With hindsight, we can see exactly how wrong the labels given to Samuel Beckett have been, since it has been said that his writing was sad, negativ...

18 de mar. de 2018

An old blind beggar and an old cripple in a wheelchair meet on a desolate street corner. The latter proposes that the two form an alliance, but the...

01 de jan. de 2000

14 de jul. de 1976

A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani.

25 de jan. de 1963

The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of...

23 de nov. de 1983

A woman left behind by a man. Based on a script by Samuel Beckett.

16 de abr. de 1977

A hot, thirsty man in the desert is tormented when the things he needs drop from the sky only to disappear again or hover out of his reach.

14 de jul. de 2001

A 69 year old man sits alone on his last birthday and listens to the past. KRAPPS LAST TAPE is an extraordinary study of mortality, creativity and ...

20 de jun. de 2007

On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted and time passes slowly while the inhabitants awai...

04 de jul. de 2013

Adaption of 'Waiting for Godot', by the Vakhtangov Theatre Moscow.

Experimental film in which three girls and one boy lead playful lives. Just as a game, in which the course is determined from beginning to end by c...

10 de fev. de 1994

A one-woman play written by Samuel Beckett at the request of Daniel Labeille. The piece was produced by Labeille on behalf of the State University...

08 de abr. de 1981

Two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone or something named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabi...

01 de jan. de 1988

A 69-year-old man sits alone on his birthday and listens to his past through the form of tape reels he has recorded throughout his life.

29 de nov. de 1972

Four disembodied faces engage in a cycle of interrogation and torture.

01 de jan. de 2013

Winnie is buried up to her waist. The merciless sun beats down. Her husband Willie barely speaks. And yet! - she proclaims – ‘this will have bee...

30 de jan. de 2021

Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of Samuel Beckett's nineteen plays.

05 de fev. de 2003

One of the most famous and mysterious literary and theatrical texts of the 1900s. Theodoros Terzopoulos, greek maestro of the international scene, ...

Samuel Beckett directs for German television for the last time.

13 de abr. de 1986

Cloaked, cowled figures wander in patterns to rhythm instruments. First transmitted by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany on 8 October 1981. "Bet...

16 de dez. de 1982

As the rain patters outside, an old man talks to himself about birth, death, funerals, lamps, missing pictures and "loved ones" - a term he perpetu...

14 de jul. de 2001

The first English broadcast of Eh, Joe? which aired on BBC2 on July 4th, 1966 with Jack MacGowran, for whom the play was specifically written, play...

04 de jul. de 1966

Samuel Beckett directs for German television.

01 de nov. de 1977

01 de nov. de 1977

On a strip of film exist a pile of clothes and two men in bags. The two men conduct their lives in isolation of each other: when one is awake, the ...

14 de jul. de 2001

When it's sunset in Purgatory and dawn on the Ganges it's noon on the Irish Sea. Filmed on Killiney Hill outside Dublin with John Manning rememb...

01 de jan. de 1994

The disembodied head of an old man with long white hair listens to three of his own voices: that of maturity, youth and old age.

01 de jan. de 2000

A recital of passages from the works of Samuel Beckett, performed by Jack MacGowran, as a raving old man.

01 de jan. de 1965

An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.