Movies: Sveriges Radio

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina, in this screen adaptation of the beloved Mozart opera. Aided by the lovelorn bird hunter Papageno and a magical flute that hold...

Edvard Munch's childhood is overshadowed by death: he suffers the loss of his sister and mother, while enduring serious illness himself, almost dying. At university, Munch discovers his talent as a painter. As he immerses himself in the art world, he...

For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves as master of ceremonies. Though it features many spectacles, including clowns, jugglers, acrobats, contortionists, and more, Parade also focuses on the...

In the fall of 1967, intermedia artists Ture Sjölander and Lars Weck collaborated with Bengt Modin, video engineer of the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation in Stockholm, to produce an experimental program called Monument. It was broadcast in January, ...

Photographer Maria meets up with Ann, the wife of her lover Jim. Since Jim is in jail, the women fight over him in his absence....

Holidays on the swedish east coast. Invading summer guests collide with the locals, all without inhibitions. The formerly so radical Social Democratic municipal councilor has completely lost his visions and fully accepts that the area is transformed ...

A relay race of "scenes from human life". Depicts the human characters inferior traits are spreading like a disease: the person who gets rejected / humiliated / oppressed takes it out on someone else....

Arne, Calle, and Gunnar are friends, probably in their twenties. One telephones the others, and they decide to visit a nightclub. They hope to meet women and have sex. After they arrive at the club, each man meets with a certain degree of success or ...

An elderly gentleman lives alone with his maid Louise. He spends his days chatting with the confectioner who lives and works downstairs, playing chess with his brother Karl Fredrick, and content with his memories. His young wife Gerda ran out on him...

August Strindberg in Paris divorced from his wife, children and friends. In the company of Parisian artists and writers, including Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch, but often he feel they ridicule and persecute him. Isolated Strindberg venture successfu...

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

A Swedish couple are trapped in their marriage and way of life. Locked up in their bourgeois inferno....

The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice to Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman (director, I Am Curious–Yellow, 1967), suggests to Swedish Television that they take the opportunity to record with the acclaime...

Through a series of mishaps, the proper bank official Gunnarsson is forced to spend his first days of vacation in the archipelago of Stockholm, both in and out of the water....

Concert film and interview from Patti Smith Group's 1976 visit to Stockholm shot for Swedish television....

A well-composed psychological dance drama of a completely different kind from the usual romantic and sometimes superficial ballets. And an intrusive interpretation of August Strindberg's play....

In a fictional future totalitarian society ruled as a one-party state. A teacher commits the crime to teach their students to think independently and is therefore being stalked. The fictional Monismania also appeared in Astrid Lindgren's saga about t...

"The Rehearsal or The Patchwork of Love" - At the Ferbroques castle, the Count, Countess and their guests are rehearsing a play....

Ad man Jonathan Blake gets tired of his work and runs away to a time travel agency for the first flight out....

About August Strindberg's marriage to Siri von Essen. She was married when she met him, but abandoned her husband, became Strindberg's mistress and later his wife....