Movie

Benjamin, dernière nuit

2016 1h 30m Released

Music

German-Jewish essayist, philosopher, and critic Walter Benjamin were one of the early 20th century's most influential thinkers, a light in the darkness of looming war and political oppression. In Benjamin, dernière nuit, composer Michel Tabachnik and librettist Régis Debray examine this life cruelly cut short by despair in the face of Nazism. Experience the opera here in its highly acclaimed 2016 premiere production at the Lyon Opera.

Cast

J Jean-Noël Briend Walter Benjamin, singer Sava Lolov Walter Benjamin, actor M Michaela Kušteková Asja Lacis M Michaela Selinger Hannah Arendt C Charles Rice Arthur Koestler S Scott Wilde Gershom Sholem