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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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