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.
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.
Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.
Seven Crosses in a Notebook
About the people at the bottom of the hierarchy working in a restaurant.
A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England.
The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.
Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.
Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.
Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
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.
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.
Television adaptation of Strindberg's play about the midsummer romance between the noblewoman and the valet.
Television adaptation of Ibsen's play about woman's role in society and marriage.
The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.
Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.
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.
Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.
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.
Drama about a group of young people in 1933 Berlin in search of an identity find themselves drawn to dangerous movements in society.