The Beggar's Opéra

A Graveyard and Beggar

A work of Video Earth Tokyo, it is an interview with a homeless who lived in the Aoyama cemetery. Photography by Michael Goldberg.

This Beggar's Description

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. A promising athlete as a child, Philip began experiencing mood swings in h

The Beggar’s Opera

The Beggar's Opera is one of the earliest examples of a Musical in the history of theater (from which Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill drew inspiration for the Threepenny Opera). A crowd of thieves and prostitutes, fences

The Little Beggar Girl

A young beggar girl wanders the streets of the city, trying to survive and bring her separated parents back together.

The Beggar's Opera

Unlike any other opera, the so-called Beggar's Opera is not just one composition, but a lineage of adapted compositions, beginning with the original hugely successful 1728 political satire written by Englishman John Gay.

The Beggar's Deceit

A legless beggar with a sign around his neck saying "cripple" pushes himself slowly and laboriously on a trolley along the pavement, soliciting alms from sympathetic passers-by. A policeman gradually approaches from the

The Beggar and The Rickshaw Driver

Sri, a beggar who caused a scandal in her helper’s family, tries to escape with with Parto, a rickshaw driver.

Crazy Beggar Su Qi Er

You know him from Drunken Master story - legendary Beggar So. A martial arts scholar, who is accidentally injured and loses his memory when he oppresses the Tianmen sect that sells big cigarettes. When he was a beggar,

Bird Trapper or Beggar

The Hakki Pikkis are a free spirited nomadic tribe who began their wandering many generations ago in the North Western part of the Indian subcontinent. Over time they travelled through and settled in different states of

The High-Born Child and the Beggar

A short melodrama about the friendship between a rich boy (in a wheelchair) and a poor street girl. When he falls seriously ill, she is not allowed to visit him. After his death, she also dies, on the street. In her hand

Gay/Britten: The Beggar's Opera

A huge success at its first performance in 1728 John Gay's The Beggar's Opera satirized the conventions of Italian opera, using popular tunes to tell the story of rogues and criminals. With his distinctive musical arran

Beggar Son-in-law

The first part of the folk opera story “Beggar and Rich Girl,” (乞食與千金) a traditional Taiwanese opera. The sequel is titled Chien-Lung, the Little Hero (劍龍小飛俠).

Beggar Writer's House

Why do we care for writers who don't care for anything or anybody, even not for themselves? Still we need them and feed them, we love them and give shelter. Can it be that at certain moments we would like to be writers a

The Beggar's Christmas

A Beggar's Daughter

This is an adaptation of the folk story, “Jin Yu Nu beats her heartless groom with a cane”. Jin Yu Nu, a beggar’s daughter, is a beautiful and kind girl. On a snowy day she saves the life of a poor scholar, Mo Ji. When M

An old beggar with a hurdy-gurdy

Document following the production of Andrzej Wajda's 1973 film "The Wedding". It focuses on Wajda's struggle to decide on a concept of depicting one of the original play's characters, Wernyhora.

Swapped to a Beggar But He is Apollo

Tricked by her stepsister into a marriage swap, Irene marries a poor wandering bard—hidden in mortal form is Apollo, the Light God. Her cruel family pushes her to despair, igniting his divine fury. Apollo unleashes holy

Master of the Drunken Fist: Beggar So

Due to a conspiracy, the wealthy So Chan loses everything but is saved by the Beggars' Sect. He learns the long lost martial art - Drunken Fist, to defeat the person who framed him.

Beggars Have No Equal

Chi Kuan Chun (Shaolin Temple, Men from the Monastery) trains with the White Haired Scholar in the Beggar Style of Kung Fu. His training is amazing, his duels are legendary!