Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence (Ireland)
(80 min; 1984; English)
Director: Seán O’Mórdha 

What a sensitive documentary can do, and what Seán O'Mórdha's Samuel Beckett: Silence to Silence does admirably, is bring together the man's life and work in a way that offers glimpses of how the one flowed into the other. For those who haven't read much about the singular Nobel Prize-winner, the documentary provides illuminating details of his childhood, school days and his war years with the French resistance; for admirers, there are tantalizing snatches of his prose, poetry and inimitable plays.