August Strindberg

The Old Bachelor (2025)

In an Iran weighed down by a struggling economy, two middle-aged brothers live with their bullying father. A man prone to rages and driven by chauvinism, the father's abusiveness found his second wife leaving him. Now he picks on his eldest son, while the ...

Pelícano (2019)

Lucía is a greedy mother who needs to feel young, seductive and atractive when she is in her sixties. She will do anything at hand to get what she wants, this behaviour will lead to the total destruction of her dysfunctional family. ...

National Theatre Live: Julie (2018)

Wild and newly single, Julie throws a late night party. In the kitchen, Jean and Kristina clean up as the celebration heaves above them. Crossing the threshold, Julie initiates a power game with Jean – which rapidly descends into a savage fight for survi ...

Inferno (2018)

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, ...

Creditors (2015)

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. ...

Miss Julie (2014)

Over the course of a midsummer night in 1890s Ireland, the unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her. ...

Miss Julie (2013)

Daughter of the manor Julie breaks off her engagement only to fall for one of her staff. ...

Julie (2013)

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? ...

Stronger (2012)

A woman walks into a bar on Christmas Eve. She strikes up a conversation with a woman sitting on her own. Three minutes later she is back on the street. Job done. ...

Mademoiselle Julie (2011)

Mademoiselle Julie is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg. It is set on Midsummer's Eve on the estate of a Count. The young woman of the title is drawn to a senior servant, a valet named Jean (Nicolas Bouchaud), who is particularly wel ...

Playing with Fire (2009)

Actor and director Ulf Friberg has filmed August Strindberg's play "Leka med elden". Or at least almost. The story of a middle-aged couple and their summer guests slides almost unnoticed into the story of the relationship between the actors and the directo ...

Hemsöborna - Väldigt fritt efter August Strindberg (2008)

Strindberg was bold! In 1887, he dared to describe a priest who both drank and swore. He dared to portray a lovesick woman like Madam Flod and a calculating, lecherous Carlsson. He showed that farmhands had a sense of humor and pined for the maids, and he ...

The Ghost Sonata (2007)

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, ...

The Stronger (2007)

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. ...

Kelias į Damaską (2007)

Miss Julie (2007)

The play is based on a classic love triangle. This is a story of temptations, disappointments and bitter betrayal, like a plague, that struck three lives on a white summer night – the aristocrat Julie, her father's servant Jean and the maid Christina. T ...

Den starkare (2004)

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. ...

Playing with Fire (2004)

A comedy about idleness, jealousy and passion. It all takes place in a seaside resort, one morning just before breakfast. ...

Thorsten Flinck's Pariah (2003)

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. ...

Miss Julie (1999)

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

The Hips of J.W. (1997)

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 L ...

The Dance of Death (1996)

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 ...

After Miss Julie (1995)

An updated version of Strindberg's play examining class and social differences. Julie, the daughter of an MP, seduces her father's chauffeur, despite his being engaged to the maid. ...

Dreamplay (1994)

Hindu god Indra has a daughter Agnes, who visits Earth to find out if people have legitimate complaints. She marries a lawyer from Bergen and has children, but is disillusioned by marriage and embarks on a journey among men. ...

The Dance of Death (1993)

Teleplay based on August Strindberg's works. ...

Võlausaldajad (1992)

Anxiously awaiting the return of his new wife, Adolph finds solace in the words of a stranger. But comfort soon turns to destruction as old wounds are opened, insecurities are laid bare and former debts are settled. ...

Pita (1991)

The story depicts the vulnerability of a man who is victimized by his wife who plots to prove his husband mentally insane. She is in disagreement with his husband on how her daughter should be raised and what she should become. She thinks that if she decla ...

Father (1990)

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

Kronbruden (1990)

"The Crown Bride" - Kersti, Mats fiancee, has given birth to their illegitimate son with the help of an old midwife. Kersti and Mats are about to get married. But Mats's family demand that Kersti must be a virgin. ...

Creditors (1988)

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. ...

Easter (1988)

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

Storm (1988)

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. ...

The Father (1988)

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. ...

Miss Julie (1987)

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

In the Archipelago (1986)

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. ...

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. ...

Pelikanen (1982)

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 ...

Fröken Julie (1981)

Birgit Cullberg's 1950 dance adaptation of Miss Julie was the breakthrough for modern dance in Sweden. 30 years later one of her sons plays the role of Jean in this adaptation for TV. ...

A Dream Play (1980)

"A Dream Play" - Agnes, a daughter of the Vedic god Indra, descends to Earth to bear witness to problems of human beings. She meets about 40 symbolical characters. ...

Syndabocken (1980)

"The Black Sheep" - Edvard Libotz, a young lawyer arrives in town, after failing to work as a High Court notary. He now plans to open his own agency. But he is different, looks foreign, is dark haired like a gypsy, and becomes very unpopular with the local ...

Kristína (1978)

Seven Women: Louise Lee (1976)

The fourth episode of Patrick Tam's anthology series "Seven Women" (1976), which adapted from Swedish play "Miss Julie" ...

Confessions of a Fool (1976)

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. ...

The Stronger (1976)

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. ...

Gustav III (1974)

Based on play by famous swedish author/playwright August Strindberg adapted for swedish TV in 70's. It's about the real life assassination on swedish king Gustav III who was killed by a lieutenant Jacob Johan Anckarström who acted on behalf of a group con ...

Karl XII (1974)

August Strindberg's historical play about the king he called Sweden's traitor. ...

Erik XIV (1974)

Counter to the popular image of Erik XIV as the mad king Strindberg paints him as an intelligent but weak king, brought down by his insecurities. ...

Inferno (1973)

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 successfully in ...

Miss Julie (1972)

A filmed Royal Shakespeare Company production of August Strindberg's classic play. Miss Julie, a nineteenth-century aristocrat's daughter, is attracted to one of the servants in her father's house. ...

The Ghost Sonata (1972)

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, ...

The Creditors (1972)

Gustave meets Adolph who tries to show him that Gustave's fiancée doesn't love him. ...

Paria (1971)

Mr X and Mr Y both have a hidden past. Mr X committed manslaughter in his youth without being caught. Mr Y falsified a debt without being punished. Now they meet in a countryside house in the middle of a storm. ...

The Stronger (1971)

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

Totentanz (1970)

Pelikanen (1970)

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. ...

Röda rummet 1979 (1970)

August Strindberg's "The Red Room" recreated to a science fiction world in Stockholm, a brutal, guarded and controlled existence under a total supremacy. Like in Metropolis or Airstrip One the citizens are directed to align themselves in the direction of w ...

Miss Julie (1969)

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

The Father (1969)

The Cavalry Captain and his brother, the Chaplain, discusses whether an adjutant is the father or not of the child one of the maids is expecting. ...

Miss Julie (1969)

The 1888 play by the Swedish writer and playwright August Strindberg tells the story of the aristocratic Juliet and her servant Jean on Midsummer's Night. After an exuberant evening, their mutual affection grows into a night spent together that changes the ...

Easter (1968)

A family in crisis during the holiday of Easter ...

Fadren (1967)

A woman drives her husband into an uncertainty that ends with scorn, confusion and stroke. ...

Miss Julie (1965)

Miss Julie has a torrid, strange relationship with her servant, Jean. ...

Gustav Vasa (1965)

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

A Dream Play (1963)

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 indi ...

The Storm (1960)

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-suppresse ...

Fröken Julie (1959)

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. ...

Ett dockhem (1956)

August Strindberg's feedback to Henrik Ibsen's "Doll's House"--a short story from the collection "Giftas" (Getting married), about female emancipation and obsolete marriages. ...

Hemsöborna (1955)

The widow Anna Eva Flod at Hemsö needs help on the farm and hire the new boy Carlsson, who quickly wins the heart of Anna Eva. ...

Giftas (1955)

The General's daughter, Helene, grows up in a safe world. She doesn't want to get married or have kids. She meets a man who talks about platonic love which seems to fit her nice. They get married but when he wants to get more intimate with her she rejects ...

Karin Månsdotter (1954)

Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and becomes queen of Sweden. The king's skilled counsellor Göran Persson wants a royal policy supporting the people and supported by it. But in relation to the n ...

Miss Julie (1951)

Based on the play by August Strindberg, Miss Julie vividly depicts the battle of the sexes and classes that ensues when Julie, a wealthy businessman's daughter, falls for Jean, her father's bitter servant. ...

La Danse de mort (1948)

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. ...

El pecado de Julia (1947)

It is about the love affair between an aristocratic lady and a lackey. ...

Hemsöborna (1944)

In the Stockholm archipelago in the 1880s, Carlsson move out to an isolated farmstead to help the widow Flood with the farm. Carlsson has big plans for the island, including having paying guests in the summer but Gusten, the son of the widow, is negative. ...

Strindberg och Paris (1963)

A focus on Sweden's greatest dramatist, August Strindberg, his years spent in Paris and the inspiration the city had on his poetry. ...