Samuel Beckett Movies

Biography and in-depth look of Beckett and his work.

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 the...

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

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...

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

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

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 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.

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

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...

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....

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.

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...

A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani.

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...

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

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" Piano...

Samuel Beckett directs for German television.

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