Plot
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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Cast
Josef Abrhám
Macheath
Marián Labuda
Peachum
Nina Divíšková
Elizabeth Peachum
Libuše Šafránková
Jenny
Rudolf Hrušínský
Lockit
Veronika Freimanová
Lucy
Barbora Leichnerová
Polly
Jiří Zahajský
Harry Filch
Oldřich Vízner
Jim
Ondřej Vetchý
Jack
Jeremy Irons
Prisoner
Jana Břežková
Mary Lockit
Kateřina Frýbová
Diana
Jana Švandová
Mahulena Bočanová
Vicky
Naďa Kotršová
Ingrid
Miloslav Štibich
Rudolf Hrušínský
Policeman
Jiří Lír
Pavel Zedníček
Oldřich Vlach
Petr Brukner
Ljuba Krbová
Jitka Asterová
Blanka Lormanová
Alice Šnirychová-Dvořáková
Eugen Jegorov
Martin Faltýn
Pavel Zvarič
Filip Minařík
Jan Morávek
Martin Morávek
Václav Kotva
Steva Maršálek
