Diskrummet

Kams - tokerier från Ådalen

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.

Midsommardröm i fattighuset

1980

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

Stängda dörrar

1981

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

Den bergtagna

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.

Trummor i natten

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.

Miss Julie

1969

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

Den beslöjade damen

1977

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.

Dacke

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.

Orestea

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.

Medea

1963

Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.

Romeo and Juliet

1955

Premiering on BBC as a part of their Sunday-Night Theatre program, this 1955 adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play closely follows the original text. The Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.

Seven Crosses in a Notebook

1983

I lodjurets timma

1989

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

Körsbärsträdgården

1970

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

Misantropen

1963

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