Where to Watch The Beggar's Opera

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Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription choices - along with the availability of 'The Beggar's Opera' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'The Beggar's Opera' right now, here are some finer points about the Filmové studio Barrandov comedy flick.

The Beggar's Opera starring Josef Abrhám, Marián Labuda, Nina Divíšková, Libuše Šafránková has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 34 min, and a scheduled release date of .

It received a user score of 60/100 on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 2 respected users.

Wondering what this story is all about? Here's the plot: "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. Composers and writers have penned variations on it ever since. The most famous of these was A Threepenny Opera by Bertholt Brecht and Kurt Weill. Some things these compositions share in common is their setting among the poor and criminal classes, and the roguish character Macheath. This production is based on an adaptation of Gay's original by Vaclav Havel the freedom-fighter, writer and philosopher who became the first (and only) president of the united post-communist country of Czechoslovakia, and it retains many traces of its theatrical origins. Film reviewers were not too tolerant of what they called "slavish adherence" to the noted Czech writer's stage production, but theater, philosophy and history buffs may feel otherwise." .