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Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence

Name: Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1984-11-29

Documentary1h 18m

Storyline

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. Billie Whitelaw, Jack McGowran, and Patrick Magee—Beckett’s great dramatic interpreters—appear in selected extracts from the plays; Beckett specialist David Warrilow narrates a variety of texts.

Trailers

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Details

DirectorSeán O'Mórdha

Released

Nov 29, 1984

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNRUS

Studio

RTÉ

Cast

Tony Doyle

Self - Narrator (Voice)

David Warrilow

Self - Text Reader (Voice)

Samuel Beckett

Self - (Archive)

Billie Whitelaw

Self

Reviews

2 reviews · 1 critic

1 fresh · 0 rotten

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Walter Goodman

RTNew York TimesJan 9, 2018

What a sensitive documentary can do, and what Sean O'Mordha's ''Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence'' does admirably, is bring together the man's life and work in a way that offers glimpses of how the one flowed into the other.

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