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From the House of the Dead (2007)
Directed by Stéphane Metge
Music · 1h 40m
Set in a Siberian prison camp, Janacek's final opera centers on the experiences of recent arrival Alexandre Petrovitch Goriantchikov (Olaf Bar), a nobleman who finds relief from the harsh conditions in the friendship of the illiterate Alyeya (Eric Stoklossa). Recorded at the Grand Theatre de Provence, this stage production is directed by the well-respected Patrice Chereau and features famed conductor Pierre Boulez. Filmed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival on 20 July 2007.
Cast
Pierre Boulez
Self - Conductor
O
Olaf Bär
Alexander Petrovich Goryanchikov
E
Eric Stoklossa
Alyeya
Štefan Margita
Filka Morosov, imprisoned under the name of Luka Kuzmich
Peter Straka
The tall prisoner
V
Vladimír Chmelo
The short prisoner
S
Sulzenko Jiri
The camp commandant
Heinz Zednik
The old prisoner
John Mark Ainsley
Skuratov
J
Jan Galla
Chekunov
T
Tomáš Krejčiřík
The drunken prisoner
M
Martin Bárta
The cook
Crew
- Director
- Stéphane Metge
- Writer
- Leoš Janáček
- Novel
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Details
- Release date
- 2007-07-20
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- France
- Production
- Deutsche Grammophon, NHK, CNC, ARTE France Cinéma