Film

Billy Budd (1988)

• 1 januari 1988
• 2u 35m

• Muziek

Overzicht

An opera by Benjamin Britten, on a libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville. Billy Budd is a young sailor aboard a British man-o'-war, persecuted by his master-at-arms, Claggart. Accused of mutiny, Budd accidently strikes Claggart dead, leaving Captain Vere with no choice but to hang him.

Regisseur

Barrie Gavin

Scenaristen

Eric Crozier, E.M. Forster, Herman Melville

Met in de hoofdrol

Thomas Allen, Philip Langridge, Richard van Allen