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Browse 23 movies from Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern
This television production captures Ingmar Bergman’s stage adaptation of Yukio Mishima’s Madame de Sade, set in France from 1772 to the aftermath of the French Revolution. While the Marquis de Sade remains imprisoned, six women—including his wife Renée—debate his actions, reputation, and meaning, revealing conflicting views on devotion, morality, and power.
Apr 1992
This television adaptation presents Molière’s comedy The School of Wives, centering on Arnolphe, an older bachelor who plans to marry his young ward, Agnès, believing her innocence will ensure his control. His scheme is disrupted when Agnès falls in love with the younger Horace, setting off a series of deceptions and confrontations that undermine Arnolphe’s authority.
Dec 1983
Set in 1920, The Image Makers depicts a private screening at Svensk Filmindustri, where silent-era director Victor Sjöström presents scenes from his adaptation of Selma Lagerlöf’s The Phantom Carriage. As the Nobel Prize–winning author watches alongside cinematographer Julius Jaenzon and young actress Tora Teje, tensions emerge between generations, genders, and artistic roles, exposing the emotional costs behind creation.
Nov 2000
Lars Norén's TV-play depicts seven men who have committed terrible crimes and are imprisoned indefinitely. A portrait of a hidden world and a stark reminder that these people exists.
Jan 2001
This short television work stages two performers reading excerpts from the Swedish Government’s Cultural Commission report (SOU 1995:84). Using largely unaltered bureaucratic language, the piece transforms the official text into a restrained satire of cultural policy and administration.
Jan 1996
Filmed stage production of Molière's comedic play The Miser about the dangers of greed.
Dec 2011
Apr 2026
A colorful, musical and humorous performance with both bizarre and everyday scenes. What happens to love when we try to choose a partner in a rational way? How does romance fare when we only care about our own happiness? And what can we really learn from Socrates, Beyoncé, Lord Byron and Leonardo DiCaprio before we all become discerning consumers in the singles market? Direction and dramatization by Ada Berger inspired by Liv Strömquist's book "The Reddest Rose Blooms".
Nov 2021
Magni is a farmer who is planning to marry Teresia who comes from a rich family. When his maid Lovisa finds out she gets furious, she has been working for him without pay for 12 years because of vague allusions to marriage, now she wants her pay! She calculates that her back pay is the same as the fortune Teresia would be bringing to the marriage.
Dec 1989
A boy imprisoned for a double murder is used in a prison experiment involving placing an animal in the cells of prisoners.
Nov 1989
Doktor Glas face ethical complications when a woman, Helga Gregorius, asks for help in preventing her husband, the disgusting Pastor Gregorius, to have sex with her.
Feb 2009
The drama about the Bark family and their daughter Berta, who will fight against the house patriarchal order. Berta remains in the house and becomes a daily threat against those who seek to oppress her. Written by Anne Charlotte Leffler (1883), one of the preeminent authors of modernism’s breakthrough
Mar 1991
Argan is a severe hypochondriac who wants his daughter to marry a doctor.
Jan 1989
Yet another adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play.
Nov 2017
"The Theater-creaters" - About the actor Bruscon, who stops in the small village of Utzbach on tour and tries to successfully bring his play "Das Rad der Geschichte/The Wheel of History" on stage. His whole family - the wife, son and daughter - are involved as actors.
Oct 1991
Azaro is a spirit child, torn between the earth and the spirit world. As he struggles with his parents in the ghetto where he lives, he is constantly subjected to insidious attacks by the spirits who want him to return to their world. Why should he stay with the people with all the suffering?
Apr 2022
A modern approach to Ibsen's classic with a youthful approach.
May 2023
A mother and daughter prepare themselves for the return of the son.
A performance of good advice from the Dramaten in Stockholm. Liv Strömquist and Ada Berger make a humorous observation of little popes, newly saved experts, sexy lecturers, self-care, helplessness and the longing for eternal life.
Nov 2024
Nico, born Christa Päffgen in Cologne, Germany just before the outbreak of the Second World War is one of the most mythic icons of our time. She was the supermodel who became Andy Warhol’s most notorious muse and the singer of legendary American rock band Velvet Underground. She had a troublesome love story with Jim Morrison and gave her son his first shot. She was a nomad, always on her way to Paris, London, or New York and stood in the center of the sixties’ art revolution. In "Nico – Sphinx of Ice", we are taken on a journey through the psyche of the broken and unbreakable sixties’ icon.
Mar 2014