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.
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.
A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England.
Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.
Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.
A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.
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.
About the people at the bottom of the hierarchy working in a restaurant.
Seven Crosses in a Notebook
Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.
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.
Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.
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.
A young man Lomov comes to propose to his neighbour Natalya but they keep on fighting over various topics.
Lunardo is an old fashioned patriarch who strictly forbids his wife and daughter to leave his house. When he decides to marry off his daugther Lucietta without allowing her to meet the man first the women around him conspire to allow the young couple to meet against his wishes.
Television adaptation of Strindberg's play about the midsummer romance between the noblewoman and the valet.
Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.