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The Beggar's Opera (1991) [N/A]

Release Date:
October 1, 1991

Original Title:
Žebrácká opera

Genres:
Comedy

Production Companies:
Filmové studio Barrandov

Production Countries:
Czechoslovakia

Ratings / Certifications:
KR: 15 

Runtime: 94

Overview from TheMovieDB

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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Performers

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Production

Adaptation:
Jiří Menzel

Assistant Camera:
Antonín Mařík

Assistant Editor:
Eva Horázná

Assistant Production Design:
Milan Býček

Assistant Production Manager:
Roman Molnár
Pavel Štěrba

Camera Operator:
Richard Valenta
Tomáš Hruška

Camera Technician:
Karel Havelka

Clapper Loader:
Eva Blažková
Soňa Nemcová

Conductor:
Štěpán Koníček

Costumer:
Věra Linhartová
Irena Seidlová

Creative Producer:
Jiří Menzel

Director:
Jiří Menzel

Director of Photography:
Jaromír Šofr

Dramaturgy:
Pavel Hajný

Editor:
Jiří Brožek

Executive Producer:
Jan Šuster

First Assistant Director:
Eva Kadaňková

Gaffer:
Jiří Půlpán

Lead Costumer:
Zuzana Máchová

Makeup & Hair:
Tomáš Kuchta
Aleš Kocián
Tereza Kolihová
Petr Blažek

Music Director:
Jiří Zobač

Original Music Composer:
Jan Klusák

Production Accountant:
Jan Peterka

Production Design:
Zbyněk Hloch

Production Manager:
Jan Šuster

Property Master:
Bedřich Čermák

Props:
Jaroslav Lehman
Rudolf Beneš
Miloslav Dvořák

Screenplay:
Václav Havel
Jiří Menzel

Script Supervisor:
Zuzana Přibíková

Second Assistant Director:
Monika Maratová
Annika Eisel-Šonka
Eric Chaikin

Sound:
Jiří Hora

Sound Assistant:
Mstislav Pilný

Still Photographer:
Miloslav Mirvald

Theatre Play:
Václav Havel
John Gay

Unit Production Manager:
Jan Hadrbolec

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