In the year 1810, the Tyrol is suffering under French occupation. A servant, who believes himself oppressed and disenfranchised by the peasants, dreams of being allowed to play Christ in the yearly Passion Play. Instead, he is forced to play Judas and soon the lines of reality blur: he betrays the location of Andreas Hofer, hidden by the farmers, breaks under the weight of his guilt and suffers Judas' fate.
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...
Young and innocent maid Elina is persuaded into forgetting her childhood sweetheart Uolevi, and to m...
A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas M...
Two clowns living in Korea's Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king....
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...
TV adaptation of Lesya Ukrainka's drama, which interprets the plot of Don Juan from a feminist point...
After Pompey's defeat at the Battle of Farsalia, Julius Caesar becomes the beacon of the Roman Repub...
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...
An Jung-geun fights for Korea's independence from the Japanese Empire and sparks a movement. In 1909...
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though t...
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding w...
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne,...
A 1965 BBC adaptation of William Shakespeare's first historical tetralogy (1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3...
Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental r...
At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war betw...