From the House of the Dead - La Monnaie / De Munt
★★★★★
false / 102 MIN. / 2018
The Genres
The Synopsis
Posthumously premiered in 1930, From the House of the Dead derives from Dostoevsky’s autobiographical 1862 novel that drew on his experience as a political prisoner in Siberia. Janáček focuses on Dostoevsky’s idea of the “spark of God” in every human being that has the potential to redeem even the most hardened criminal.