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A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.

A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.

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.