Medea(1963)

Twelfth Night(sv)

Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Frine cortigiana d'Oriente(it)

Medea(it)

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.

Kamraterna(sv)

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(sv)

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

Midsommardröm i fattighuset(sv)

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

Ett Dockhem(sv)

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

Från regnormarnas liv(sv)

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

Revisorn(sv)

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.

Easter(sv)

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

Meinir's Tree(en)

Den beslöjade damen(sv)

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.

Miss Julie(sv)

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

Gustav Vasa(sv)

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

Dacke(sv)

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.

Catching the Big Fish(en)

Set during the turbulent shift from silent to sound, this film intertwines the lives of a struggling filmmaker and a solitary fisherman. A meditation on creativity and change, this film explores the enduring value of artistic integrity in an ever-shifting world.

Medea(he)

An actress loses her identity in a character, what then turns her life into tragedy.

Phaedra(en)

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.

Trummor i natten(sv)

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(en)

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.