Prisoners of Beckett

Prisoners of Beckett

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2005•85 min•Documentary
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Jan Jönson
Jösta Hagelbäck
Jösta Hagelbäck
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Lennart Wilson
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Marianne Håkansson
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Betty Skawonius
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Spoon Jackson
The meeting of two worlds that never met. One of poetry and freedom, and the other of silence and darkness. A story that begins in a maximum security prison in Sweden where a young actor, Jan Jönson, decides to stage " Waiting for Godot "with five prisoners as actors.
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