Britten: Billy Budd (movie)

Name: Britten: Billy Budd
Director: Michael Grandage
Released: 2011-3-25
Rating: 10
Cast: John Mark Ainsley, Michael Wallace, Matthew Rose, Richard Mosley-Evans, John Moore

User score: 10
Production country: United Kingdom
Producer: Michael Grandage
Production companies: Opus Arte, Glynbourne, The Monument Trust, BBC
Genre: Music
Release date: 4/25/2011
Run time: 175 min.

Movie description

Captain Vere, an old man, is haunted by a moment in his life when he was tested and found wanting. Based on Herman Melville's novella of naval life in the late 18th Century, Benjamin Britten's 'Billy Budd' is a gripping reflection on good and evil, innocence and corruption.