Tosun Pasha

The Indestructible Wife

January 1919 •English

Romantic comedy variation on "The Taming of the Shrew" starring Alice Brady.

Soudný den

November 1949 •Czech

Dear Mr. Prohack

September 1949 •English

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.

The Tenderness

September 2023 •Spanish

Queen Esmeralda hates men because they have always limited her freedom, so she does not want her two daughters to suffer the same fate. Therefore, when the ship in which they are traveling passes near an apparently deserted island, she invokes a portentous storm.

The Boudoir Diplomat

December 1930 •English

A ladies' man flirts with the wives of other governments' officials.

OMG: Oh My God!

September 2012 •Hindi

A shopkeeper takes God to court when his shop is destroyed by an earthquake.

Darling, How Could You!

August 1951 •English

Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama.

Barnum

December 1986 •English

Barnum the musical traces Phineas Taylor Barnum's career from 1835 to 1881 when he joined James A. Bailey to form the circus which was called The Greatest Show on Earth. Barnum is a defender of "the noble art of humbug" with a philosophy, and has a free wheeling ambition to make a fortune. He buys the oldest woman in the world, named Joyce Heath, as a sideshow attraction. Barnum builds a museum of curiosities supported by his wife Charity, who would like him to settle down.

Red poppy

June 1955 •Slovak

The Madwoman of Chaillot

October 1969 •English

An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro

February 2006 •Italian

David McVicar's spellbinding production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO is set in 1830s post-revolution France, where the inexorable unravelling of an old order has produced acute feelings of loss. In the relationship between Finley's suave, dashingly self-absorbed Count and Röschmann's passionately dignified Countess, which lies at the tragic heart of the opera, the sexy ease between a feisty Figaro (Erwin Schrott) and a sassy Susanna (Miah Persson) is starkly absent, the tenacious spark between Marcellina (Graciela Araya) and Bartolo (Jonathan Veira) suggesting what might be rekindled. The production is superbly complemented by the beauty of Paule Constable's lighting and Tanya McCallin's evocative sets. Antonio Pappano conducts (and accompanies the recitatives) with invigorating wit and emotional depth.

Lysistrata

June 1965 •Czech

Důvod k rozvodu

August 1937 •Czech

Dalskabáty, hříšná ves aneb Zapomenutý čert

February 1977 •Czech

The Guild of the Kutná Hora Virgins

September 1938 •Czech

A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it to the poor.

Poslední muž

October 1934 •Czech

La tonta del bote

May 1970 •Spanish

Susana is an unappreciated, naive and somewhat clumsy orphan who has lived since she was a child at doña Engracia's house, because her mother died a few days after she was born. In this house, which also houses three nephews of doña Engracia without a penny to one's name, Susana is the maid of all. Economic necessities lead Engracia to rent a room. Felipe, a handsome man with a bad reputation, will reply to the ad.

Uspořená libra

December 1963 •Czech

Duchacek Will Fix It

June 1938 •Czech

The Catacombs

February 1940 •Czech

The title refers to the office of records in the basement of a large company... sort of the place where a troublesome employee may be dumped in a dead end job. If fact, the story is a simple romantic comedy, with Burian as the kindly old stick-in-the-mud who helps the young man to sort out his romance with the daughter of the company's owner.