Film

Billy Budd (1988)

• 1. januar 1988
• 2 t 35 min

• Music

Oversikt

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.

Regissør

Barrie Gavin

Manusforfattere

Eric Crozier, E.M. Forster, Herman Melville

I hovedrollene

Thomas Allen, Philip Langridge, Richard van Allen