Movies Like Herr Sleeman kommer

Comrades

1982

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.

Från regnormarnas liv

1998

The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.

Lek ej med kärleken

1961

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

Misantropen

1963

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

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.

Seven Crosses in a Notebook

1983

Gustav Vasa

1965

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

Muntra fruarna i Windsor

1998

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

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.

Dacke

1961

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.

Tuesdays with Morrie

1999

A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and society.

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young kids of Harlem. 1996 was the 25th anniversary of the first tournament named after him.

Easter

1988

Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.

Ett Dockhem

1970

Television adaptation of Ibsen's play about woman's role in society and marriage.

Körsbärsträdgården

1970

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

Medea

1963

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

Night Café

1965

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

Revisorn

1990

When the people of a small corrupt town find out a secret inspector will be arriving shortly they panic, something which a lazy civil servant takes full advantage of and lets them believe that he is that inspector.