August Strindberg

Nobody enjoys being in debt, financial or otherwise, but August Strindberg's 1888 play – which the author ranked as his finest achievement – plays with masterly skill on the themes of emotional debit and credit to create a situation as painfully enjoyable for the audience as it is nightmarish for the protagonists. Stage play performed at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London, UK.

A footman seduces a count's daughter. Adaptation of August Strindberg's famous play.

Complex battle of the sexes and classes as a neurotic rich woman has an affair with her father's calculating valet.

An adaptation of the play by August Strindberg. An egocentric artillery Captain and his venomous wife battle on their isolated island fortress. Alice, a former actress, reveals their marriage’s hell on their 25th anniversary. Edgar, an aging schizophrenic, struggles with his illness and arrogance. Fearing Alice and her cousin Kurt may ally against him, he retaliates. Alice lures Kurt into a plot to destroy Edgar.

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

British TV-film "The Stronger", a classic play by August Strindberg

Nobody enjoys being in debt, financial or otherwise, but August Strindberg's 1888 play – which the author ranked as his finest achievement – plays with masterly skill on the themes of emotional debit and credit to create a situation as painfully enjoyable for the audience as it is nightmarish for the protagonists. Stage play performed at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond, London, UK.

A footman seduces a count's daughter. Adaptation of August Strindberg's famous play.

Complex battle of the sexes and classes as a neurotic rich woman has an affair with her father's calculating valet.

An adaptation of the play by August Strindberg. An egocentric artillery Captain and his venomous wife battle on their isolated island fortress. Alice, a former actress, reveals their marriage’s hell on their 25th anniversary. Edgar, an aging schizophrenic, struggles with his illness and arrogance. Fearing Alice and her cousin Kurt may ally against him, he retaliates. Alice lures Kurt into a plot to destroy Edgar.

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

British TV-film "The Stronger", a classic play by August Strindberg

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.

The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation.

Directed by Dante Testa and Gino Zaccaria.

A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.

Teleplay based on August Strindberg's works.

Based on a dramatic monologue by August Strindberg, the short film follows a married woman as she confronts her husband's lover after bumping into her in a café on Christmas eve.

The depressed Adolf has been visited by his new friend friend Gustav who is in contact with him about what he is going to do with his wife Tekla.

Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Max Monteiro, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and Jean de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Lucifer and also directs the Strindberg play, engage in a philosophical and spiritual tug-of-war, especially when they meet an author named God, who has plans for another drama to feature both actors.

A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past.

End of the 19th century. In a mansion, Miss Julie lives with her father. She has just broken her engagement but is attracted to a valet, Jean. They spend the Midsummer Eve together and plan to fly to Switzerland. Anna Hofman-Uddgren was almost the first female film director in Sweden. Beaten by a couple of months by Ebba Lindkvist.

A love triangle is unraveled when a young painter is approached by an admirer who eases him into making sense of his relationship with his wife.

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An elderly gentleman lives alone in a well-appointed residential building, spending his days in habitual routines with neighbors and family. When his former wife—who left years earlier with their child—moves into the apartment above him, long-suppressed tensions resurface, leading to a series of charged encounters.

A television adaptation of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, the film follows Agnes, the daughter of the god Indra, as she descends to Earth to witness the conditions of human existence. Through a succession of loosely connected scenes, she encounters individuals from different walks of life, with events unfolding according to dream logic rather than linear narrative.

Television adaptation of Strindberg's play about the midsummer romance between the noblewoman and the valet.

Norwegian TV movie based on August Strindberg's play. A mother hide the fact that she leaves her son to go to parties and have social gatherings.

In this performance of Pariah by August Strindberg Thorsten Flinck plays both characters in a half-black, half-white outfit, turning to face the camera with the side currently speaking.

The TV-play from the set of Inferno at "Strindbergs Intima Teater", directed by Anna Pettersson and with Siri Hamari in the role of Strindberg, is a lively tale of boundless dreams and frightening fantasies. With the help of magic, music effects and film, Strindberg's portrayal of the creative crisis and the search for new forms. During Strindberg's chaotic time in France and Austria in 1894-1896, his so-called Inferno year, he performed alchemical experiments, tore his hands and suffered hallucinations. In the village where he closes in, he is called the cuckoo. In another country, a little daughter is waiting for her father. This version has been called an "age performance", performing arts that suit all ages. And the finely nuanced and detailed presentation would surely have appealed to the scientist Strindberg.

It has just been a funeral when the daughter and son-in-law return from their honeymoon. Now the house is haunted. The empty rocking chair rocks, the doors slam, the paintings fall down and papers fly through the room. In the chiffonier's maple compartment is found a letter from the dead father. This letter is hidden again, rediscovered and finally torn up. The despairing, frozen and coughing son does not give up. He drills his way to the truth. It hits hard right up until the final catastrophe, awakening and liberation.

A gentleman, who likes to tell himself that he lives a life of quiet calm and resignation, gets a visit from his brother one day and mysterious things begin to happen.

Kalle, 14 years old, has lost his footing in reality when his family splits up. During an escape, he lives alone for a few days at the family's cottage where he studies nature and writes "The Tale of Lightning", a superman freed from problems.

During the 1200s, the catholic priest Peder has to divorce his wife when the church votes for celibacy.

The captain Edgar and his wife, the actress Alice, live in a dead marriage, where the only thing that has grown deeper is the bitterness. Despite that they're going to celebrate their silver wedding. When their relative Kurt comes to visit from America, 25 years of bitterness suddenly flouts up to the surface.

The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation. The play centers on a family of strangers who meet for the sake of meeting. They exchange no dialogue, nor gestures, they simply sit and bask in their own misfortune.

The film is based on the work of the Swedish writer August Strindberg.

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

Two friends meet at a café. The silent unmarried Mr Y and the outspoken married Mr X. When Mr X realises that Mr Y was his rival for his wife's love they enter a battle of the minds where the stronger will win.

Adaptation of a Strindberg play by Lee Grant for the 1974 AFI Directing Workshop for Women. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. 

Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds up as a destitute before all is revealed. This film is considered lost.

A charged power struggle between spouses. A tug of war to the death of an only child as ends and means. From an August Strindberg play.

It's Midsummer Eve and Julie sets her sights on Jean, Kristin's betrothed. What can Kristin do? Both she and Jean are employed by Julie's father. Julie gets her night with Jean. But at what cost?

Film adaptation of August Strindberg's classic marriage drama in which the wife Laura drives the equestrian master into insanity and death.

A family in crisis during the holiday of Easter