From the House of the Dead & Glagolitic Mass (2023)

Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian prison in the company of misfits, murderers and theives, Dostoevsky was inspired to write his novel Notes from a Dead House, telling his brother at the time: ‘Believe me, there were among them deep, strong, beautiful natures, and it often gave me great joy to find gold under a rough exterior.’ In Janáček’s hands, Dostoevsky’s inspiration and the raw material drawn from an appalling world of incarceration find an even more powerful form of expression in his last opera, From the House of the Dead. Unfettered by conventional story-telling, Janáček wrote his own libretto, freely weaving together a series of stories of everyday prison life and of the fates of individual convicts.

Directing:
  • Jakub Kořínek

Writing:
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Leoš Janáček
  • Svatava Šenková

Stars:
Release Date: 2023-11-06
  • Country: CZ
  • Language: Český
Petr Levíček
Petr Levíček
Elderly Prisoner
Jarmila Balážová
Jarmila Baláž...
Aljeja / Young Tatar
Peter Berger
Peter Berger
Skuratov
Pavol Kubáň
Pavol Kubáň
Šiškov
Kateřina Kněžíková
Kateřina Kněž...
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