Samuel Beckett in berlin - 1969

Samuel Beckett walk in Berlin.

1969, by Rosa veim and Daniel Schmid.

[mccartichoke]

I spent a week with Beckett in Berlin two years later, at the Schiller Theater, in late September, 1971. That experience was the second-most-profound one of my life; I had idolized him since high school, and was there with Jack and Gloria MacGowran, for whom I worked, and Gareth Browne of Claddagh Records in Dublin. Beckett was a mountain of human being. I intentionally did not bring a camera, out of deference to his privacy. At times, I almost wish I had.
One night, after work, the five of us sat at a hotel bar sipping beaujolais, when Marcel Marceau approached our table, introduced himself to each of us, then proceeded to tell Beckett, in French, "how ironic that we both, living in Paris, should first finally meet in Berlin!" Gareth asked, upon Marceau's departure, "What do you think of that, Sam?" "Ahh, ...he tries too hard, " was the reply.

[johnnyfx]

@conic9, @Eckbert Wickleberry:
It's Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonatina for mandolin and cembalo C-minor, WoO 43a [1795].

[Mrpallekuling]

01:38 Have I got the Nobel Prize? In what? Literature!?
03:09 "Have you heard the story about the priest and the ducks?"
03:36 I better check that newspaper again...

[MrUndersolo]

This is amazing! He won the Nobel in the same year, so he was extra sensitive about his privacy (read the Knowlson biography if you can).

[ICEBOXTV]

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[ash_editz]

I wanna play piano n cricket with him ... PERHAPS, 🖤

[kegenification]

Who is the woman he is walking with? It is not his wife; Barbara Bray?

[jigsaw]

Amazing footage here, but the music is even more so.

[thomby]

Is there any film of the great man either in interview or conversation or anything? I've never seen any...

[poetryreincarnations]

Intriguing footage Beckett evidently had very poor eyesight I struggle to read print in the same manner even with glasses worn.

[helveciocaetanoandrade]

What about the Song? Does Someone know?

[Leibo]

haha, the sneakers -_-

who in the world made this footage? Beckett seems unaware being filmed

[bethanylake]

Instead of the music they've got here, turn the sound down and watch it with Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" instead. Even more badass.

[josephwoods]

Bizarre, clearly this was done surreptitiously?Non?

[Mazurka]

Of course, nowadays it’s hard to tell real from Fake (pretty much all “news” except high school sports & weather)... but this seems like a genuine footage. 👍🏼