
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.
2009

A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England.
1998

The actress Johanne Heiberg and author Hans Christian Andersen bump into each other one night and nothing will ever be the same.
1998

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.
1991

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.
1990

A boy imprisoned for a double murder is used in a prison experiment involving placing an animal in the cells of prisoners.
1989

Drama about a family going through a crisis during the Easter weekend.
1988

1983

Inès, Estelle, and Garcin are condemned to be together in a single room and soon start arguing and accusing each other.
1981

About the people at the bottom of the hierarchy working in a restaurant.
1974

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

Television adaptation of Chekhov's story about the spoiled widow Madame Ranevskaya.
1970

Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
1967

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.
1965

Gustav Vasa struggles to keep power while dealing with the Dacke War in his own country and his foreign debts.
1965

Shows the people who visit a café that is open late at night
1965

Alceste has a very low opinion about humanity and is always brutally honest. This gets him into a lot of trouble.
1963

The baron wants his niece and her cousin to get married but their own intrigues challenge his plans.
1961

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

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