Medea

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.

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.

Frine cortigiana d'Oriente

December 1953 •Italian

Medea

December 1969 •Italian

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

Twelfth Night

January 1967 •Swedish

Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Meinir's Tree

May 2024 •English

Ett Dockhem

December 1970 •Swedish

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

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.

Han som fick leva om sitt liv

December 1987 •Swedish

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.

Från regnormarnas liv

February 1998 •Swedish

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

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.

Easter

October 1988 •Swedish

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

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.

The Trojan Women

May 1971 •English

In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to raise their son, Astyanax, alone. Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, fears being enslaved by her Greek masters, while Helen of Troy risks being executed. Astyanax also becomes the focus of the Greeks' attention as the last male heir of the Trojan royal family.

Electra

May 1962 •Greek

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

Phaedra

May 1962 •English

A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson Alexis and sparks immediately fly. Their love seems doomed from the beginning when she convinces him to come to Paris to meet his father.

Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

September 1986 •English

Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king has gone unavenged, and Oedipus sets out to find the killer.

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

September 1986 •English

Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to take him away.