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Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film

2003 · 52m · Documentary

Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of writer Samuel Beckett's nineteen stage plays. The documentary features excerpts from the "Beckett on Film" versions of "Not I", "Krapp's Last Tape", "Endgame", "What Where", and "Waiting for Godot".

Cast

• Alan Moloney as Self - Producer
• Joe Mulholland as Self - Executive Producer (RTE)
• Stephen Brennan as Self - Lucky ("Waiting for Godot")
• John Crowley as Self - Director ("Come and Go")
• Paola Dionisotti as Self - From "Come and Go"(archive footage)
• Atom Egoyan as Self - Director ("Krapp's Last Tape")
• Sean Foley as Self - Man ("Act Without Words I")
• Michael Gambon as Self - Hamm (archive footage)
• John Gielgud as Self - The Protagonist ("Catastrophe")
• Enda Hughes as Self - Director ("Act Without Words II")
• John Hurt as Self / Self - Krapp ("Krapp's Last Tape")
• Jeremy Irons as Self - Reader / Self - Listener ("Ohio Impromptu")

Details

Director

Pearse Lehane

Released

February 5, 2003

Runtime

52m

Genres

Documentary

Studio

Emdee 2000 Productions, Ambrose Video Publishing and RTÉ

Status

Released

TMDB score

10.0 / 10 from 1 votes