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.
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.
1955
About the people at the bottom of the hierarchy working in a restaurant.
1974
Shows the people who visit a café that is open late at night
1965
Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.
1970
Blind-Jonas is in a poorhouse dreaming about his past, in contrast the young girl Cecilia shows up dreaming about her future.
1980
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.
1982
Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.
1981
Drama about a group of young people in 1933 Berlin in search of an identity find themselves drawn to dangerous movements in society.
1983
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.
1987
The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.
1998
Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.
1988
A boy imprisoned for a double murder is used in a prison experiment involving placing an animal in the cells of prisoners.
1989
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.
1961
Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.
Television adaptation of Strindberg's play about the midsummer romance between the noblewoman and the valet.
1969
Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.
1963
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.
1972
Special broadcast of Aimé Césaire's text, directed by Hervé Denis for the Cooperation and Cultural Action Mission of the French Embassy in Haiti.
1991
In a house in the heart of the Casbah of Algiers, a family is torn apart by the weight of war. Three divided brothers, caught up in the contradictions of a country in struggle, gradually unite around a single cause: the liberation of Algeria. Ibna El Casbah is a tense, emotionally-charged behind-closed-doors story that captures the moment when intimacy becomes history.
1959