Seven Crosses in a Notebook
Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
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.
The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.
In March 1792 the Swedish King Gustav III is murdered at a masked ball. Five young people are involved in the murder story, including Tintomara, a 17 year old inter-sex who dominates over the others.
At 30 years old King Gustav III has a number of great projects behind him already, but his most demanding in front of him - to consummate his marriage and put an heir on the throne. With both determination and anxiety the king begins his amorous battle to secure succession.
Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.
A young girl is torn between marrying the old man herr Sleeman for money or the young hunter out of love.
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.
A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England.
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.
Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.
Shows the people who visit a café that is open late at night
Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.
Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.
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.
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.
Television adaptation of Ibsen's play about woman's role in society and marriage.
“Let us assume that Switzerland is truly a paradise. The music hereto was written long ago. We have merely forgotten it.” (Daniel Schmid) This is the material from which the most Swiss of all operas is made: the legendary Wilhelm Tell – a Swiss hero: straightforward, a primus inter pares of the indomitable freedom fighters, a good shot, surefire. A myth that becomes a poetic playground: nature in turmoil, the struggle for freedom and forbidden love. A legendary overture at a gallop with an iconic post horn motif – all this and much more in the thirty-seventh and last opera by Rossini.
Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group conspirators.