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Directing
Casper Wrede
Born February 8, 1929 · Viipuri, Finland
Died September 28, 1998 · aged 69
Baron Casper Gustaf Kenneth Wrede af Elimä, known as Caspar Wrede (8 February 1929 – 25 September 1998), was a Finnish theatre and film director. He was long active in the English theatre, co-founding the Royal Exchange theatre company in Manchester. Casper Wrede came from a noble Finnish family of Livonian origin, which owned large estates mainly in eastern Finland between the 17th and 19th cent…
Known For
Ransom · 1974Ransom
★ 5.51974
MovieActionDrama
Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport, announcing that the passengers will not be freed until their demands are met. Colonel Nils Tahlvik, Scandinavia's resourceful and ruthless head of security, seeks to take an uncompromising stance against the terrorists yet his attempts meet resistance from unknown forces at every turn...
The Summer in Gossensass · 1964The Summer in Gossensass
1964
MovieDocumentaryDrama
'To the May sun of a September life', wrote Henrik Ibsen on the photograph of himself that he gave to 19-year-old Emilie Bardach in Gossensass in September 1889. This is a documentary about the sixty-second year in the life of the great Norwegian dramatist.
Private Potter · 1962Private Potter
★ 5.51962
MovieDramaWar
A military mission is interrupted when a British soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich · 1970One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
★ 6.71970
MovieDrama
Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway
The Barber of Stamford Hill · 1963The Barber of Stamford Hill
★ 10.01963
MovieDrama
Mr. Figg, the barber, is fond of telling customers about his family, but he hasn’t really got one – he’s a bachelor quite alone in the world. But that may change.
Sunday Night Theatre · 1950Sunday Night Theatre
★ 3.51950
SeriesDrama
Sunday Night Theatre was a long-running series of televised live television plays screened by BBC Television from early 1950 until 1959.
The productions for the first five years or so of the run were re-staged live the following Thursday, partly because of technical limitations in this era, and the theatrical basis of early television drama. Some of the earliest collaborations between Rudolph Cartier and Nigel Neale were produced for this series, including Arrow to the Heart and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The Sunday night drama slot was subsequently renamed The Sunday-Night Play which ran for four seasons between 1960 and 1963. ITV transmitted its own unrelated run of Sunday Night Theatre between 1971 and 1974.
Movies
Ransom · 1974Ransom
★ 5.51974
MovieActionDrama
Following a series of bomb attacks in London, a group of terrorists seize Britain's ambassador to Scandinavia. With the ambassador now a hostage in his residence, another group hijacks an airliner at the capital's airport, announcing that the passengers will not be freed until their demands are met. Colonel Nils Tahlvik, Scandinavia's resourceful and ruthless head of security, seeks to take an uncompromising stance against the terrorists yet his attempts meet resistance from unknown forces at every turn...
The Summer in Gossensass · 1964The Summer in Gossensass
1964
MovieDocumentaryDrama
'To the May sun of a September life', wrote Henrik Ibsen on the photograph of himself that he gave to 19-year-old Emilie Bardach in Gossensass in September 1889. This is a documentary about the sixty-second year in the life of the great Norwegian dramatist.
Private Potter · 1962Private Potter
★ 5.51962
MovieDramaWar
A military mission is interrupted when a British soldier claims that God had appeared to him in a transcendental vision.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich · 1970One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
★ 6.71970
MovieDrama
Fly-on-the-wall treatment of an ordinary day in the life of a prisoner in Stalin's Gulag. Closely adapted from Solzhenitsyn's classic novel based on his own experiences. Shot entirely on location in northern Norway
The Barber of Stamford Hill · 1963The Barber of Stamford Hill
★ 10.01963
MovieDrama
Mr. Figg, the barber, is fond of telling customers about his family, but he hasn’t really got one – he’s a bachelor quite alone in the world. But that may change.