Beckett on Film
19 Films X 19 Directors
Beckett on Film was a project aimed at making film versions of all nineteen of Samuel Beckett's stage plays, with the exception of the early and unperformed Eleutheria. This endeavour was successfully completed, with the first films being shown in 2001.
Beckett on Film: Season 1 - 3 Episode s
1x1 - Waiting For Godot
Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.
1x2 - Endgame
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. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
1x3 - Happy Days
A middle-aged woman, half-buried in the earth, chatters away to a taciturn man, who lives in a hole behind her. Later, she is buried up to her neck, and the man does not seem to be about.