Misantropen

Seven Crosses in a Notebook

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

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 Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

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.

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.

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.

Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.

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

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.

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

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.

Special broadcast of Aimé Césaire's text, directed by Hervé Denis for the Cooperation and Cultural Action Mission of the French Embassy in Haiti.

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

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.

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.