
23 Aug 1970

Körsbärsträdgården
Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.
The story of a man who has committed a crime but gets the chance to live his life again and avoid all of his past mistakes.

Daniel

Anna
Agnes
Hugo
Ingrid

Elof

Boman

Karlsson

23 Aug 1970

Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.

20 Nov 1989

A boy imprisoned for a double murder is used in a prison experiment involving placing an animal in the cells of prisoners.

01 Apr 1998

A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England.

04 Feb 1998

The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.

27 Dec 1970

Television adaptation of Ibsen's play about woman's role in society and marriage.

14 Dec 1980

Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.

28 Feb 1983

A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.

04 Oct 1982

Axel and Bertha are a married couple who are both artists in 1880s Paris, the film addresses the topic of gender equality in marriage and society, for example the property rights of married women.

10 Nov 1981

Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.

17 Nov 1961

The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.

16 Oct 1988

Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.

25 Dec 1969

Television adaptation of Strindberg's play about the midsummer romance between the noblewoman and the valet.

10 May 1959

In a house in the heart of the Casbah of Algiers, a family is torn apart by the weight of war. Three divided brothers, caught up in the contradictions of a country in struggle, gradually unite around a single cause: the liberation of Algeria. Ibna El Casbah is a tense, emotionally-charged behind-closed-doors story that captures the moment when intimacy becomes history.

07 May 1985

Jonas has to stay at home on the farm and look after his seven younger siblings, because stepfather and stepmother are going to a wedding with eldest daughter Anna. But Jonas is curious about how the party goes and when it might be his turn to get married.

07 May 1972

After the first world war Andreas returns to Berlin to find it in chaos after the fall of the empire. The main battle is between the Spartacists and the Freikorps and Andreas needs to find a place for himself in the conflict for the future of Germany.

25 Oct 1965

Depicts a woman who commits suicide after being betrayed by a man who, by playing on her low self-esteem, has made herself her superior - and thus deprived her of all right to exist.

06 Sep 1965

Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.

28 Apr 1961

Nils Dacke, leader of the revolt against Gustav Vasa, is torn between his anger over social injustice and royal oppression, and his doubt in the power of himself and weapons.

07 Feb 2009

Kristian Smeds's sensational debut at the National Theater. Smeds's adaptation of Väinö Linna's The Unknown Soldier had a powerful impact even on those who had not seen the play. In the National Theater's interpretation, modernity and intensity are strongly present throughout the play. The cast includes Antti Luusuaniemi, Kristo Salminen, and Jaakko Kytömaa.

01 Jan 1972

The story of the “Oresteia” begins with King Agamemnon's return to Argos after the fall of Troy. The chorus, composed of old Argives, recalls the sacrifice offered to the gods by Agamemnon, in Aulis, of his daughter Iphigenia to gain their favor.