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Recording of the opera performance in the National Theatre of Prague. The novel of F. M. Dostoyevsky (also published under the titles Notes or Memoirs from the Dead House), in which he described his personal experiences as the tsar´s political prisoner, inspired Leoš Janáček so strongly that he based on it his last opera. The story is situated in a tsarist prison, and the content is a narration of the individual prisoners´ life stories. In Janáček´s musical rendering, the memories of the suffering and misery which had been the prime origin of the committed crimes are full of love of life, compassion with human pain and thirst for freedom.
HD | 99´ | © 2016
director(s): Blažena Hončarivová
producer(s): Czech Television
cast: Featuring Štefan Margita, František Zahradníček, Michal Bragagnolo, Josef Moravec et al.
rights available: TV, Video, Internet
original language: Czech