I lodjurets timma

Medea

1963

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

Seven Crosses in a Notebook

1983

Orestea

1972

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.

Körsbärsträdgården

1970

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

Romeo and Juliet

1955

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.

Night Café

1965

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

Färdknäpp

1991

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.

Misantropen

1963

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