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Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French. He is widely regarded as among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Beckett was awarded the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his writing, which—in new forms for the novel and drama—in the destitution of modern man acquires its elevation."
Most Popular Samuel Beckett Trailers
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15 April 1987
The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose, plays, and poetry.
23 November 1983
The filmmakers accompany Alan Schneider, director of the American premieres of most of Beckett's plays, and producer Daniel Labeille to the home of Billie Whitelaw, whom Schneider, ironically, had never met previously, and takes us through the rehearsal process of Beckett's newest play, including the recording of the dialogue, as almost all of it is voiceover.
13 April 1986
Samuel Beckett directs for German television for the last time.
04 September 1965
A man attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.
30 January 2021
Winnie is buried up to her waist. The merciless sun beats down. Her husband Willie barely speaks. And yet! - she proclaims – ‘this will have been another happy day’.
01 January 2013
Four disembodied faces engage in a cycle of interrogation and torture.
01 January 1994
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 remembering Samuel Beckett.
09 October 1988
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 San Quentin State Prison in California.
06 May 2021
An experimental exploration of the storied play. Becket’s vision of perpetual uncertainty, anxiety, and loneliness is refracted through our current moment.
17 April 1977
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 Trio no.
03 April 1961
Two derelicts occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate.
03 January 1971
Somewhere sits two men, Vladimir and Estragon, waiting for a man named Godot. Internationally acclaimed Swedish TV dramatized version of the classic stage play.
04 February 2001
Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.
07 August 2020
Krapp’s Last Tape: James Hayes uses his natural Irish accent to deliver the best known of these works, a meditation on ageing.
04 July 2013
On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted and time passes slowly while the inhabitants await the return of the mysterious John.
25 June 1980
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.
16 April 1977
A woman left behind by a man. Based on a script by Samuel Beckett.
03 February 2018
A famous tragicomedy "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett was premiered on the 3rd of February 2018 at the New Stage of the Vakhtangov Theatre.
07 October 1981
Cloaked, cowled figures wander in patterns to rhythm instruments. First transmitted by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany on 8 October 1981.
27 November 1973
Performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 16th January 1973
01 January 1969
Samuel Beckett walks in Berlin in 1969.
01 January 1989
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 happens twice.
13 April 1966
A lonely man is taunted by the voice of a woman he once knew.
18 March 2018
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 and desperate.
14 April 2023
Endgame tells the story of Hamm, who is reduced to living in one room, in which he sits blind and chair-bound.
25 January 1963
A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani.
08 September 2000
In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament.
25 September 1986
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 scenes read excerpts from Beckett works), but in the end the director brilliantly performs the same material of the avant-garde exercise.
01 November 1977
Samuel Beckett directs for German television.
01 January 1965
A recital of passages from the works of Samuel Beckett, performed by Jack MacGowran, as a raving old man.
01 January 1966
Two men on a lonely island. Based on Beckett.
01 January 1993
Biography and in-depth look of Beckett and his work.
01 September 2001
An autocratic Director (Harold Pinter) and his Assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon) put the final touches to the last scene of some kind of dramatic presentation, which consists entirely of a man (John Gielgud) standing still onstage.
10 February 1994
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 certain rules, can be played time and again, their lives are also endless repetition.
01 January 2012
The play combines Beckett's true personality with his conflict with the two characters who make up the heroes of his two novels, "Malone Dies" and "Endgame," as well as how his influence on his heroes affects his personal life.
14 July 2001
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.
01 January 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 terrible secrets.
01 February 2000
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 really happen to her.
01 January 1966
a 22-minute French experimental short film directed by Marin Karmitz and Jean Ravel, based on Samuel Beckett's 1963 play.
10 September 2000
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 dustbins.
08 April 1981
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 of New York's Programs in the Arts for a festival and symposium in commemoration of Beckett's 75th birthday (Wikipedia).
14 July 2001
The land is filled with people in urns chattering at top speed, but only to themselves, not to one another.
04 April 1979
A man attempts to remain hidden from view from the camera and other eyes.
01 January 2000
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 men are not destined to get along together.
01 November 1966
Composed entirely of still photographs taken by Chris Marker across 26 countries, If I Had Four Dromedaries presents a dialogue between three voices reflecting on the meaning of images and travel.
08 September 2000
There are five survivors in a futuristic library. Bam is their supreme dictator, and has the others interrogated and tortured, believing them to have said where.
27 October 2015
NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements.
19 May 1983
Nacht und Träume (Night and Dreams) is the last television play written and directed by Samuel Beckett and broadcast on 19th May 1983.
20 June 2007
A 69 year old man sits alone on his last birthday and listens to the past. Krapp's Last Tape is an extraordinary study of mortality, creativity and memory.
01 January 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.
04 July 1966
The first English broadcast of Eh, Joe? aired on BBC2 on July 4th, 1966 with Jack MacGowran, for whom the play was specifically written, playing Joe and Siân Phillips as Voice.
22 December 2019
Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the man who made Waiting for Godot.
01 January 1998
Documentary about the staging of 'Waiting for Godot' in prison.
01 January 2001
The camera swoops down on a circular area, seemingly suspended in space. It is filled with medical waste and other trash.
02 April 2002
A reader tells a sad story to a listener, who only knocks in response.
05 February 2003
Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of writer Samuel Beckett's nineteen stage plays.
14 July 2001
As the rain patters outside, an old man talks to himself about birth, death, funerals, lamps, missing pictures and "loved ones" - a term he perpetually avoids using.
31 August 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 visible behind her.
