Adaptations of stories written by Nobel laureates in Literature
No adaptations:
2011 - Tomas Tranströmer (poetry, translation)
2000 - Gao Xingjian (novel, drama, literary criticism)
1985 - Claude Simon (novel)
1984 - Jaroslav Seifert (poetry)
1979 - Odysseas Elytis (poetry)
1960 - Saint-John Perse (poetry)
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo (poetry) (no adaptations, but he did write the Italian dialogue in Barabbas (1961))
1950 - Bertrand Russell (philosophy)
1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt (poetry)
1927 - Henri Bergson (philosophy)
1919 - Carl Spitteler (poetry)
1916 - Verner von Heidenstam (poetry, novel)
1910 - Paul von Heyse (poetry, drama, novel, short story)
1908 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken (philosophy)
1906 - Giosuè Carducci (poetry)
1902 - Theodor Mommsen (history, law)
1901 - Sully Prudhomme (poetry, essay)
The Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded in 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940-1943.
2011 - Tomas Tranströmer (poetry, translation)
2000 - Gao Xingjian (novel, drama, literary criticism)
1985 - Claude Simon (novel)
1984 - Jaroslav Seifert (poetry)
1979 - Odysseas Elytis (poetry)
1960 - Saint-John Perse (poetry)
1959 - Salvatore Quasimodo (poetry) (no adaptations, but he did write the Italian dialogue in Barabbas (1961))
1950 - Bertrand Russell (philosophy)
1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt (poetry)
1927 - Henri Bergson (philosophy)
1919 - Carl Spitteler (poetry)
1916 - Verner von Heidenstam (poetry, novel)
1910 - Paul von Heyse (poetry, drama, novel, short story)
1908 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken (philosophy)
1906 - Giosuè Carducci (poetry)
1902 - Theodor Mommsen (history, law)
1901 - Sully Prudhomme (poetry, essay)
The Nobel Prize in Literature was not awarded in 1914, 1918, 1935 and 1940-1943.
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- DirectorPatrice LeconteStarsJean-Pierre MarielleHippolyte GirardotSandra ExtercatteHow the life of Victor Chmara toppled during the course of a single day during the summer of 1958?2014 - Patrick Modiano
novel Villa Triste - DirectorSarah PolleyStarsJulie ChristieMichael MurphyGordon PinsentA man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.2013 - Alice Munro
short story The Bear Came Over the Mountain - DirectorYimou ZhangStarsGong LiWen JiangRujun TengWhen a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.2012 - Mo Yan
novel Red Sorghum: A Novel of China or Red Sorghum Clan - DirectorFrancisco J. LombardiStarsAngie CepedaSalvador del SolarMónica SánchezThe Peruvian army captain Pantaleon Pantoja, a very serious and efficient officer, is chosen to set up a special service of 'visitors' to satisfy the sexual needs of the soldiers posted on remote jungle outposts.2010 - Mario Vargas Llosa
novel Captain Pantoja and the Special Service - DirectorStere GuleaStarsOana PelleaDan ConduracheMara GrigoreInspired by the overthrow of the Ceausescu regime in Romania, this novelistic feature examines the questions of a society after a revolution has happened, such as guilt and atonement and the anxiety that former conditions might come back again.2009 - Herta Müller
original screenplay - DirectorTony GatlifStarsOvidiu BalanPhilippe PetitPierrette FeschMondo is a homeless young boy, with a big smile, who wanders around Nice looking for food and a place to sleep.2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
short story Mondo - DirectorRené FéretStarsDominique MarcasMarion HeldJulien Féret2007 - Doris Lessing
novel Retreat to Innocence - DirectorÖmer KavurStarsZuhal OlcayFikret KuskanSevda FerdagA young man, who came to Istanbul to study despite his father's objection, started photography when he was out of money. He takes souvenir photos for people in taverns. One day, a mysterious woman says she wants to see all the photos she took. The young photographer takes the photos he takes every morning to the woman.2006 - Orhan Pamuk
original screenplay - DirectorClive DonnerStarsAlan BatesDonald PleasenceRobert ShawWhile renovating his house in London, Aston, out of pity, lodges a homeless man, but Aston's brother taunts and harasses the cranky old bum.2005 - Harold Pinter
play The Caretaker - DirectorMichael HanekeStarsIsabelle HuppertAnnie GirardotBenoît MagimelA young man romantically pursues his masochistic piano teacher.2004 - Elfriede Jelinek
novel The Piano Teacher - DirectorSteve JacobsStarsJohn MalkovichNatalie BeckerJessica HainesAfter having an affair with a student, a Cape Town professor moves to the Eastern Cape, where he gets caught up in a mess of post-apartheid politics.2003 - John Maxwell Coetzee
novel Disgrace - DirectorLajos KoltaiStarsMarcell NagyBéla DóraBálint Péntek14-year-old György's life is torn apart in WWII Hungary, as he is deported first to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald, where he is forced to become a man in the midst of hatred, and what it really means to be Jewish.2002 - Imre Kertész
novel Fatelessness - DirectorIsmail MerchantStarsOm PuriJames FoxAasif MandviIn 1950s Trinidad, a frustrated writer supports himself as a masseur--and soon becomes a revered mystic and politico.2001 - Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
novel The Mystic Masseur - DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDavid BennentMario AdorfAngela WinklerIn 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.1999 - Günter Grass
novel The Tin Drum - DirectorDenis VilleneuveStarsJake GyllenhaalMélanie LaurentSarah GadonA man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie.1998 - José Saramago
novel The Double - DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsDario FoFranca RameGiorgia MollAchille is a naive station messenger who wants to make ends meet. He is in love with a beautiful girl, who he manages to conquer after several clownish attempts.1997 - Dario Fo
original screenplay - DirectorMark AdamStarsRoberto CampanellaDanielle DenichaudRobert GlumbekA dance interpretation of the poem Nothing Twice by Wislawa Szymborska, seen through the eyes of a older poet at her typewriter.1996 - Wisława Szymborska
poem Nothing Twice - DirectorWiebke von CarolsfeldStarsAidan QuinnTaylor SchillingGina MoxleyA couples happy existence is upended when Abbey gets pregnant and Dermot is too immature to consider the idea of fatherhood, despite being in his 50's.1995 - Seamus Heaney
movie is partly based on a poem by Seamus Heaney - DirectorRithy PanhStarsCyril GueïJhem ChuopSoeum ChhoeumWhen an American plane crashes in the Cambodian jungle, the pilot is taken captive by the Khmer Rouge. They instruct the kids of a village to keep an eye on the prisoner. While the younger kids gradually become friends with the stranger, the older boy called Pang has a different attitude. Since he grew up without parents, he accepted the Khmer rouge as his replacement parents and endears himself to them by betraying villagers. When Pang becomes responsible for watching the prisoner, things become worse for the pilot.1994 - Kenzaburō Ōe
novel Prize Stock - DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsOprah WinfreyDanny GloverYada BeenerA slave is visited by the spirit of a mysterious young woman.1993 - Toni Morrison
novel Beloved - CreatorJoshua BlumBob HolmanStarsJohnny DeppLeonard CohenLou Reed1992 - Derek Walcott
poem - DirectorBarney SimonStarsJoe StewardsonDenise NewmanRachel FreyThis socially conscious film, set in South Africa, presents an interracial love story between a German geologist and a young black woman. The German is only visiting South Africa. He meets his new love in a shop where he hires her as his housekeeper. She soon becomes his lover and this infuriates their nosy neighbors who report them to the police.1991 - Nadine Gordimer
short story City Lovers - DirectorMaría Luisa BembergStarsAssumpta SernaDominique SandaHéctor AlterioThis fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, established herself as an important New World philosopher, poet, playwright and early feminist. When Sor Juana comes under the scrutiny of a vicious archbishop (Lautaro Murúa) for her unconventional ways, she must appeal to a powerful political connection -- the Viceroy's scholarly wife.1990 - Octavio Paz
novel Juana Inés de la Cruz o las trampas de la fe. México - DirectorMario CamusStarsVictoria AbrilAna BelénConcha VelascoAs in the novel of the same title from Camilo Jose Cela, "La Colmena" is a sad composition with the stories of many people in the Madrid of 1942, just the postwar of the spanish civil war. The main theme of the film is the contrast between the poets, surviving close to misery under the Franco's regime, and the winners of the war, the emerging class of the people that makes easy money with illegal business.1989 - Camilo José Cela
novel The Hive - DirectorJorge FonsStarsErnesto Gómez CruzMaría RojoSalma HayekThe lives of men and women living on Callejón de los Milagros in Mexico City.1988 - Naguib Mahfouz
novel Midaq Alley - DirectorAleksey GermanStarsYuriy TsuriloNina RuslanovaJüri Järvet Jr.Late winter 1953. The lives of nearly half the planet are in Stalin's hands.1987 - Joseph Brodsky
poem - DirectorOssie DavisStarsWole SoyinkaRasidi OnikoyiBanjo SolaruAn African dictator (Wole Soyinka) seeks advice from the king (Rashidi Onikoyi) he ousted on modernizing his tribal nation.1986 - Wole Soyinka
play Kongi's Harvest - DirectorPeter BrookStarsJames AubreyTom ChapinHugh EdwardsSchoolboys marooned on a Pacific island create their own savage civilization.1983 - William Golding
novel Lord of the Flies - DirectorJaime Humberto HermosilloStarsHéctor BonillaMaría RojoArmando MartínMaria is on a business trip, and during a storm her car cracks up in the middle of the highway. She is picked up by a mental hospital's bus that takes her there but she cannot get out because everyone thinks she is mentally ill.1982 - Gabriel García Márquez
original screenplay - DirectorHorst FlickStarsSusi NicolettiRudolf StroblLouise Martini1981 - Elias Canetti
play Hochzeit - DirectorTadeusz KonwickiStarsAnna DymnaMaria PakulnisDanuta SzaflarskaThe film evokes a childhood in rural Lithuania between the wars. A country boy, Tomaszek, lives on a rich estate, situated on the Polish border. He realizes that the Issa Valley he lives in is to be torn apart by internal political conflicts and unrests among the mixed population of Poles, Lithuanians, Jews and Russians. He, however, is captivated by a paradise surrounding him, the forest, and his fantasies.1980 - Czesław Miłosz
novel The Issa Valley - DirectorBarbra StreisandStarsBarbra StreisandAmy IrvingMandy PatinkinA Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
novel Yentl the Yeshiva Boy - DirectorVíctor MeliveoStarsFabrice FerraRocío Martín AlvaradoPapelu Pinedam1977 - Vicente Aleixandre
- DirectorFielder CookStarsRobin WilliamsRichard B. ShullDavid BickfordTommy Wilhelm is a good honest man who's fallen on hard times after losing his job, but what really gets to Tommy is seeing both his friends and family turning their backs on him one after the other. He tries to seize the day - in vain.1976 - Saul Bellow
novel Seize the Day - DirectorPaul KazeeStarsJames PeakBarbara SandersLisa WeeksAn apartment dweller overhears a neighbor down the hall refer to him as a "poor miserable wretch". He complains to his wife about this, but she takes the neighbors side. While the man is willing to accept this assessment from his wife, he does not understand how it is that the neighbor could be in a position to make the same assessment. His wife explains.1975 - Eugenio Montale
- DirectorGunnar SkoglundStarsAnders EkEdvin AdolphsonAnnika TretowDuring the latter half of the 1800s, one million people from Sweden emigrated to Northamerica.1974 - Harry Martinson
novel The Road - DirectorJan TroellStarsEddie AxbergGudrun BrostUlla AkselsonA working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving from job to job and meeting a variety of individuals who gradually shape his future.1974 - Eyvind Johnson (there were two laureates in 1974)
novel Here's Your Life - DirectorFred SchepisiStarsCharlotte RamplingMaria TheodorakisGeoffrey RushElizabeth Hunter controls all in her life - society, her staff, her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act as she chooses her time to die.1973 - Patrick White
novel The Eye of the Storm - DirectorVolker SchlöndorffMargarethe von TrottaStarsAngela WinklerMario AdorfDieter LaserA young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.1972 - Heinrich Böll
novel The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum - DirectorMaurice HattonStarsAndy GarciaKitty AldridgeGuy BertrandCarlos Quintas, the democratically-elected president of an unnamed South American country, has been deposed by a military coup. He is in London, the head of a government in exile, rallying international support. He is also a poet of talent and reputation, in love with Kate, his assistant, who has a secret of her own and keeps Carlos at a distance. The generals have a team of professionals in London bent on kidnap and assassination. Hovering around Carlos are two Russians, who may be KGB, an American book publisher, who may be CIA, an elusive Brit, probably from her majesty's secret service, and his own few supporters. Is Carlos doomed? Whom can he trust?1971 - Pablo Neruda
poem - DirectorCasper WredeStarsTom CourtenayEspen SkjønbergAlf MallandIvan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to a camp in the Soviet gulag system. He was accused of becoming a spy after being captured briefly by the Germans as a prisoner of war during World War II. He is innocent, but is sentenced to ten years in a forced labor camp. The day begins with Shukhov waking up sick. For waking late, he is forced to clean the guardhouse, but this is a comparatively minor punishment. When Shukhov is finally able to leave the guardhouse, he goes to the dispensary to report his illness. It is relatively late in the morning by this time, however, so the orderly is unable to exempt any more workers and Shukhov must work. Based on the life of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.1970 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - DirectorMichael Lindsay-HoggStarsBarry McGovernJohnny MurphyAlan StanfordTwo tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.1969 - Samuel Beckett
play Waiting for Godot - DirectorHiroshi ShimizuStarsKen UeharaRyuji IshiyamaEinosuke NakaA friendly bus driver and his passengers over the duration of one journey through the mountains to the nearest train station.1968 - Yasunari Kawabata
short story Thank You - DirectorMarcos MadanesStarsVirginia LagoBeatriz BarbieriHomero Cárpena1967 - Miguel Ángel Asturias
short stories La Red (The Network) by Silvina Ocampo, El Experimento (The Experiment) by Santiago Dabove and El Venado de las Siete Rosas (The Deer of the Seven Roses) by Miguel Ángel Asturias - DirectorWilli SchmidtStarsHeidemarie TheobaldWilhelm BorchertChristine GerlachWorld War II. German soldiers destroyed a Jewish village in Poland and slaughtered almost all of the residents. The few survivors gather in mourning and lament especially for Eli, a pious shepherd boy who, in the middle of the bloodbath, wanted to call God from heaven with the sound of his flute and was killed by a German soldier.1966 - Nelly Sachs
play Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels - DirectorIlan EldadStarsMike BurstynDassi HadariRaphael Klatchkin1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon (there were two laureates in 1966)
- DirectorSergey BondarchukStarsSergey BondarchukPavel BoriskinZinaida KirienkoA Soviet soldier, Andrei Sokolov, has been separated from his family by World War II. Suffering in German captivity, he dreams of meeting his darlings after the victory. But cruel fate turned out otherwise.1965 - Mikhail Sholokhov
novel Destiny of a Man - DirectorYves AllégretRafael E. PortasStarsMichèle MorganGérard PhilipeVíctor Manuel MendozaLife in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.1964 - Jean-Paul Sartre
novel Typhus - DirectorNikos VoudourisStarsHristos Simardanis1963 - Giorgos Seferis
poem - DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellJohn CarradineAn Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.1962 - John Steinbeck
novel The Grapes of Wrath - DirectorVladimir PogacicStarsMilena DapcevicBratislav GrbicLjubinka BobicReleased in the USA with English subtitles. Mihailo, the son of the village gunsmith, is seduced by the wife of an elderly tavern-keeper. When the husband discovers them together, the wife kills him with a knife handed her by the boy. He runs away and broods about the killing for a few years, and has no interest in women. Back home, his girlfriend, Anika, waits for his return. When he does, and does not take advantage of her encouragement, recalling his bad experience of years past, she reacts by becoming the town harlot. Her half-wit brother resents her love for Mihailo, and when he sees that they might get together, he kills his sister.1961 - Ivo Andrić
short novel Legends of Anika - DirectorDavid LeanStarsOmar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.1958 - Boris Pasternak
novel Doctor Zhivago - DirectorZeki DemirkubuzStarsSerdar OrçinZeynep TokusEngin GünaydinMusa, who works as a bookkeeper in the customs office, believes in the emptiness and absurdity of life. He doesn't struggle to change his life; he lets himself flow along with events because he thinks that it all leads to the same end. The death of his mother doesn't affect him. Although he loves her, her death makes him joyful.1957 - Albert Camus
novel The Stranger - DirectorAlfredo CastellónStarsSimon MartinMaría CuadraJosé CalvoAfter a long period of absence, living in large and anonymous cities, a poet, Juan, returns to the village of his birth, Moguer, there he finds happiness through; the friendship of a small donkey, Platero, a free spirited girl, Aguedilla, and recalling memories of his childhood.1956 - Juan Ramón Jiménez
story Platero and I - DirectorGuðný HalldórsdóttirStarsSigurður SigurjónssonBaldvin HalldórssonMargrét Helga JóhannsdóttirA hapless guy from the city visits an isolated Icelandic seaside settlement. He gradually realizes that the seals are not what they seem, and that two of the inhabitants are magicians, vieing for the favour of a mysterious woman. Liberated from a spell, she proves to be a magician too. Then he falls in love....1955 - Halldór Laxness
novel Under the Glacier / Christianity at the Glacier - DirectorRobert SiodmakStarsBurt LancasterAva GardnerEdmond O'BrienHit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.1954 - Ernest Hemingway
short story The Killers - DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsSimon WardRobert ShawPeter CellierComplex family relationships, as well as a combat experience, form the personality of the future world-known politician.1953 - Winston Churchill
book My Early Life: A Roving Commission - DirectorClaude MillerStarsAudrey TautouGilles LelloucheAnaïs DemoustierAn unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures.1952 - François Mauriac
novel Thérèse Desqueyroux - DirectorRichard FleischerStarsAnthony QuinnSilvana ManganoArthur KennedyGovernor Pontius Pilate gave the populace a choice to spare either Barabbas, a criminal, or Jesus, condemned as a heretic, from crucifixion. The masses chose Barrabas, and he is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life.1951 - Pär Lagerkvist
novel Barabbas - DirectorStephen RobertsStarsMiriam HopkinsWilliam GarganJack La RueA wealthy but neurotic Southern belle finds herself trapped in the hideout of a gang of vicious bootleggers. The gang's leader lusts after her, and is determined not to let anything stand in the way of his having her.1949 - William Faulkner
novel Sanctuary - DirectorGeorge HoelleringStarsJohn GroserDonald BissetClement McCallinThe tape version, if one exists, may be 114 minutes but the film, on original release, ran the same 140 minutes in the USA as it did in England. It is an experimental transposition of the Eliot play to the screen and, as such, and Eliot a poet, the film deals more with sound and meaning than it does film movement, i.e., static shots with voice overs. It is the story of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.1948 - Thomas Stearns Eliot
play Murder in the Cathedral - DirectorJean DelannoyStarsPierre BlancharMichèle MorganLine NoroA minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.1947 - André Gide
novella The Pastoral Symphony - DirectorConrad RooksStarsShashi KapoorSimi GarewalRomesh SharmaThe story of a young Indian who embarks upon a journey to find the meaning of existence. Based on the novel by Hermann Hesse.1946 - Hermann Hesse
novel Siddhartha - DirectorFaith HubleyStarsBibi BaptisteEmilio HernándezEmilio Pérez1945 - Gabriela Mistral
poem - DirectorAnker SørensenStarsLaila AnderssonJørgen BuckhøjPoul ReichhardtGudrun is the lovely girl who embodies all the good things that one attributes to a young person - in a way an ordinary girl, but still one who is different. She is diligent, a girl who wants something, knows something, and wants to learn. She is, in short, a girl you can not help but fall in love with.1944 - Johannes Vilhelm Jensen
novel Gudrun - DirectorMatti KassilaStarsToivo MäkeläEmma VäänänenRauni LuomaViktor Sundvall is a guard of a little channel in the Finnish countryside. He is an unsuccessful playwright who is frustrated with his marriage and his life and therefore he has became an alcoholic. One Saturday-morning in august he is waiting for a visit of an old family-friend Maija Länsilehto with whom he has had a relationship in his youth. But Sundvall does not know that the Saturday will be the last day of his life.1939 - Frans Eemil Sillanpää
novel Elokuu - DirectorSidney FranklinVictor FlemingGustav MachatýStarsPaul MuniLuise RainerWalter ConnollyAlthough married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.1938 - Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
novel The Good Earth - StarsJean-Pierre LoritFlorence PernelMarcel Dossogne1937 - Roger Martin du Gard
novel sequence The Thibaults - DirectorSidney LumetStarsKatharine HepburnRalph RichardsonJason RobardsAt the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse.1936 - Eugene O'Neill
play Long Day's Journey into Night - DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsMargarita LozanoOrazio TorrisiCarlo CartierFive stories by Luigi Pirandello set in turn-of-the-century Italy.1934 - Luigi Pirandello
four short stories from Pirandello's 15-volume series Novelle per un anno: L’altro figlio (The Other Son), Mal di luna (Moonsickness), La giara (The Jar) and Requiem - DirectorVladimir TolkachikovStarsMargarita ZakharovaIgor ZakharovLeonid Kuravlyov1933 - Ivan Bunin
short story The Belated Spring - DirectorPiers HaggardStarsImogen StubbsJames WilbySusannah YorkFrank Ashton and his best friend are hiking across Dartmoor when he twists his ankle. Frank goes for help at a nearby farmhouse where he stays for a few days and falls in love with Megan.1932 - John Galsworthy
short story The Apple Tree - DirectorWilliam WylerStarsWalter HustonRuth ChattertonPaul LukasA retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.1930 - Sinclair Lewis
novel Dodsworth - DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsDirk BogardeRomolo ValliMark BurnsWhile recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.1929 - Thomas Mann
novella Death in Venice - DirectorLiv UllmannStarsElisabeth MathesonBjørn SkagestadSverre Anker OusdalKristin is the daughter of a prominent landowner in medieval Norway. She grows up in total harmony with the ideals of the time: strong family ties, social pride and devout Christianity. She accepts the fact that her father has arranged for her to marry the son of another landowner. Kristin's beauty and purity create violent emotions around her. There are envy and attempted rape, murder and revenge. She seeks refuge from the world in a convent, awaiting the time for her marriage. Here the passion of her life strikes, the knight Erlend Nikulaussonn. He, an accomplished seducer, also falls hopelessly in love. They have to cross not only convent walls to meet, but social boundaries as well. Their love cannot be kept secret, and suddenly the innocent Kristin is the centre of a scandal. Her fiance withdraws from their engagement, her father rages, and Erlend's former mistress tries to poison her. The affair grows into a political issue, and finally some of the country's most dignified leaders persuade Lavrans to give in. The lovers win each other, but it is in front of a charred altar in a burnt down church, and their happiness has a double edge.1928 - Sigrid Undset
trilogy of historical novels Kristin Lavransdatter
Kransen (The Wreath), Husfrue (The Wife) and Korset (The Cross) - DirectorAngelo MarescaStarsCarmen MauraStefano DionisiLuigi Maria Burruano1926 - Grazia Deledda
novel The Woman and the Priest / The Mother - DirectorGeorge CukorStarsAudrey HepburnRex HarrisonStanley HollowayIn 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.1925 - George Bernard Shaw
play Pygmalion - DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsDaniel OlbrychskiWojciech PszoniakAndrzej SewerynThree friends hope to build a factory but their plans are quickly jeopardized by local politics and one of the partner's dangerous love affair.1924 - Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
novel The Promised Land - DirectorMary McGuckianStarsGeraldine ChaplinBrid BrennanGeraldine JamesThis film is based on the one-act play by W B Yeats and concerns another great figure from Irish literature, Jonathan Swift, whose spirit, with those of his two lovers, Stella and Vanessa, emerges in a series of seances held in Dublin in 1928. Their passion, Swift's torment, and ultimately Stella's revenge are enacted. Thrown together by the crisis, those attending the seance are forced to confront the truths of their own lives ..1923 - William Butler Yeats
play The Words Upon the Window Pane - DirectorEmilio FernándezStarsDolores Del RíoPedro ArmendárizColumba DomínguezIn the ranch of El Soto lives Raymunda (Dolores del Río) and her daughter, Acacia (Columba Domínguez). After she is widowed, Raymunda marries Esteban (Pedro Armendáriz). What Raymunda does not suspect is that a deep passion has arisen between Acacia and Esteban. The misfortune is that the men who approach Acacia have a tragic end, and because of this, they begin to call her "La Malquerida" ("The Unloved").1922 - Jacinto Benavente
novel The Passion Flower - DirectorJacques FeyderStarsMaurice de FéraudyFélix OudartJean ForestA poor vegetable peddler in Paris runs afoul of the law and finds himself ground up in the cogs of the corrupt French judicial system.1921 - Anatole France
novel L'Affaire Crainquebille - DirectorHenning CarlsenStarsPer OscarssonGunnel LindblomBirgitte FederspielIn 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment his is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.1920 - Knut Hamsun
novel Hunger - DirectorJohn W. BruniusStarsPauline BruniusHugo BjörneJessie WesselA divorced woman takes matters into her own hands and destroys her late ex-husband's will, to ensure that their daughter receives her rightful inheritance. Will her efforts be for naught? Based on "Lille Rødhætte" by Henrik Pontoppidan.1917 - Henrik Pontoppidan
novel Thora van Deken - DirectorArne WeelStarsEjner FederspielHelga FrierVera Gebuhr1917 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup (there were two laureates in 1917)
novel The Mill - DirectorSatyajit RayStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeMadhavi MukherjeeShailen MukherjeeThe lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.1913 - Rabindranath Tagore
novella The Broken Nest - DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsAlfred AbelFrida RichardAud Egede-NissenA shiftless young man becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman and yearns to find her again.1912 - Gerhart Hauptmann
short novel Phantom - DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsTula BelleRobin MacdougallEdwin E. ReedWith the aid and guidance of a magical fairy, two peasant children set out in search of the elusive "Blue Bird of Happiness".1911 - Maurice Maeterlinck
play The Blue Bird - DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmHilda BorgströmTore SvennbergOn New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.1909 - Selma Lagerlöf
novel Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! - DirectorJohn HustonStarsSean ConneryMichael CaineChristopher PlummerIn 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.1907 - Rudyard Kipling
novella The Man Who Would Be King - DirectorMervyn LeRoyAnthony MannStarsRobert TaylorDeborah KerrLeo GennAfter fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.1905 - Henryk Sienkiewicz
novel Quo Vadis - DirectorRafael GilStarsValeriano AndrésManuel ArbóRafael Bardem1904 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre
play El Gran Galeoto - DirectorJean-Louis LorenziStarsJulie JuddMathieu DelarivePatrick Préjean1904 - Frédéric Mistral (there were two laureates in 1904)
poem Mirèio / Mireille - DirectorJohn W. BruniusStarsHarald AimarsenTorsten BergströmPalle BruniusSynnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and fall in love. Another boy, Knud Nordhaug, is also yearning for Synnöve. Together with some companions he bullies Thorbjörn, who knocks them down. When Knud meets Synnöve's father, he gets him to believe that it is Thorbjörn who is the bully. Synnöve's parents forbid her to meet Thorbjörn henceforth. Some years later Knud proposes to Synnöve, but is turned down. At Midsummer Eve Thorbjörn and Synnöve meet secretly. They renew their love-vows, and Thorbjörn promises to develop a better reputation in the village. When Thorbjörn is driving a loaded cart to the town, the wagon breaks down. As the Nordhaug farm is nearby, he goes there to lend a new wagon. Knud sees Thorbjörn and starts a fight. When Thorbjörn turns away, Knud stabs a knife in his back. For many weeks Thorbjörn hovers between life and death. Ultimately he rises from the bed, but as a changed man, open for reconciliation.1903 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
novel Synnøve Solbakken