Medea

‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌ ‌‌‌‌‌While performing the role of Oedipus on stage, a string puppet decides to break the cycle and not simply accept his fate. In doing so, he defies his creator, only to realize that the creator is but a mere creation herself.

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.

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

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

Frine cortigiana d'Oriente

A short film by Chiara Del Bove. Starring Caterina Cesari, Elisa Brunelli, Denise Del Bove and Camilla Calabrò.

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

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.

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

Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Antigone asks the question of the difference between the spirit of the Law and the letter of the Law. This elemental ancient play about - honor, loyalty, love, betrayal and conviction - resonates as sharply and as damning today as it did when it was written 2,500 years ago.

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.

In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to raise their son, Astyanax, alone. Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, fears being enslaved by her Greek masters, while Helen of Troy risks being executed. Astyanax also becomes the focus of the Greeks' attention as the last male heir of the Trojan royal family.

Living in exile after the death of their father, the grown children of a murdered and usurped king converge to exact eye-for-an-eye revenge.

A modern retelling of the Greek myth of Phaedra. The young and fiery second wife of an extremely wealthy shipping magnate meets her estranged stepson Alexis and sparks immediately fly. Their love seems doomed from the beginning when she convinces him to come to Paris to meet his father.

Torn between loyalty to her family, and her love for Jason, Medea attacks her father and flees with Jason to unknown lands. Her brother pursues them. When Jason betrays and abandons her, she is driven to the ultimate act of vengeful destruction.

About the people at the bottom of the hierarchy working in a restaurant.

Shows the people who visit a café that is open late at night