Mr. Sleeman Is Coming

Tuntematon sotilas

February 2009 •Finnish

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.

Diskrummet

November 1974 •Swedish

About the people at the bottom of the hierarchy working in a restaurant.

Nattcafé

January 1965 •Swedish

Shows the people who visit a café that is open late at night

Körsbärsträdgården

August 1970 •Swedish

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

Färdknäpp

December 1991 •Swedish

Dennis feels he's had enough of the cozy middle-class life in the suburbia. Before the middle-age (and John Denver's records) puts him down he wants to break away from everything. Unfortunately his wife Pauline and their friends William and Jane don't make it easy for him. To make matters worse, there seems to be some young punks vandalizing the neighborhood, but it's definitely not the ones everyone seem to believe it is.

Seven Crosses in a Notebook

July 1983 •Russian

Muntra fruarna i Windsor

April 1998 •Swedish

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

Midsommardröm i fattighuset

December 1980 •Swedish

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

Kamraterna

October 1982 •Swedish

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.

Stängda dörrar

November 1981 •Swedish

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

Revisorn

December 1990 •Swedish

When the people of a small corrupt town find out a secret inspector will be arriving shortly they panic, something which a lazy civil servant takes full advantage of and lets them believe that he is that inspector.

Lek ej med kärleken

November 1961 •Swedish

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

Misantropen

January 1963 •Swedish

Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.

Easter

October 1988 •Swedish

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

Den bergtagna

October 1965 •Swedish

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.

I denne verden er alt mulig

January 1983 •Norwegian

Drama about a group of young people in 1933 Berlin in search of an identity find themselves drawn to dangerous movements in society.

Kams - tokerier från Ådalen

May 1985 •Swedish

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.

Trummor i natten

May 1972 •Swedish

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.

Children of the Casbah

May 1959 •Arabic

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.

Den beslöjade damen

February 1977 •Swedish

Fredrik is a male feminist who has a big fight with his wife one morning. When a widow shows up in their home and starts telling his wife how great it is to be a widow he flees the apartment but finds himself constantly followed by a gang of women.