Movie Details
Original Language:French
Cast & Crew
J
Jean-Noël Briend
as Walter Benjamin, singer
M
Michaela Kušteková
as Asja Lacis
S
Scott Wilde
as Gershom Sholem
M
Maxine Braham
Choreographer
R
Régis Debray
Writer
Benjamin, dernière nuit
1 hr 30 minMusic
Plot
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.
