Samuel Beckett Movies

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,...

Set in an "abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one". The abode is a flattened cylinder with rubber walls fifty meters in...

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

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...

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...

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.

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, negative...

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

A short film by Rosa von Praunheim

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

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

Sitting alone on his 69th birthday, Krapp reflects upon the last 30 years of his life as he listens to an old tape recording of himself he made on...

Documentary about the staging of 'Waiting for Godot' in prison.

A wordless, silent interview with Samuel Beckett for Swedish Television after Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature.