한 집안의 4대에 걸친 서사극으로 칠레의 정치적 격동기를 배경으로 했다. 쿠테타로 희생된 대통령의 가정, 한 사람의 남편, 가장으로서의 그의 몰락과 붕괴를 보여준다. 정치가의 딸 클라라(메릴 스트립)는 심령의 능력을 타고 났다. 그녀는 언니 로사가 독살당하자 로사의 약혼자였던 에스테반(제레미 아이언스)과 결혼한다. 그러나 에스테반은 결혼 후에도 바람을 피워 가르시아(빈센트 갈로)라는 아들을 낳아오고 성격은 점점 포악해진다. 그는 딸 블랑카(위노나 라이더)가 인디언 혈통의 사회주의자 페드로와 사귄다는 사실을 알고는 딸의 애인을 죽이려고까지 한다. 더 이상 견디지 못한 클라라는 딸 브랑카를 데리고 에스테반 곁을 떠난다. 그 사이 블랑카는 페드로(안토니오 반데라스)와 결혼해 예쁜 딸을 낳고 살지만 사회주의자라는 이유로 군부에 수감되는데...
극장을 운영하고 있는 에카달 가족의 집에서 크리스마스 파티가 열리고 있다. 화니와 알렉산더는 이 집의 첫째 아들인 오스카 에카달의 자녀로 할머니 헬레나의 사랑을 독차지하고 있다. 그러나 어느날 가족들이 지켜보는 가운데 연극 무대에서 연습중이던 오스카가 갑자기 쓰러져 숨을 거두고 만다. 이후 시간이 흘러, 수업을 마치고 집에 돌아온 화니와 알렉산더에게 에밀리가 목사와 결혼한다는 놀라운 사실을 발표한다. 이에 화니와 알렉산더는 엄마를 따라 목사의 집으로 들어간다. 그러나 목사는 화니와 알렉산더의 생활을 하나하나 억압하며 간섭을 한다. 에밀리는 목사의 횡포에 질려 이혼을 요구하나 아이들을 빼앗겠다는 협박만을 받는데...
1909년, 스웨덴 웁살라. 가난했지만 매우 엄격한 기독교의 교리에 따라 키워진 헨릭 베르히만(사뮤엘 프릴러 분)은 웁살라에서 신학공부를 한다. 비참하고 어려운 그의 생활에서 유일한 낙은 여급인 프리다를 만나는 것. 어느날 헨릭은 부유한 집안의 친구 어니스트의 일요일 만찬에 초대된다. 헨릭은 그 만찬에서 어니스트의 여동생 안나를 만나게 된다.
Follow the hopes and dreams of four generations of a Korean immigrant family beginning with a forbidden love and crescendos into a sweeping saga that journeys between Korea, Japan and America to tell the unforgettable story of war and peace, love and loss, triumph and reckoning.
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.
The epic tale of celebrated Pulitzer-prize winning author Alex Haley's ancestors as portrayed in the acclaimed twelve hour mini-series Roots, was first told in his 1976 bestseller Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The docu-drama covers a period of history that begins in mid-1700s Gambia, West Africa and concludes during post-Civil War United States, over 100 years later. This 1977 miniseries eventually won 9 Emmy awards, a Golden Globe award, and a Peabody award, and still stands as the most watched miniseries in U.S. history.
The story based on a novel by Colleen McCullough focuses on three generations of the Cleary family living on a sheep station in the Australian outback.
Monday May 7, 1945 – the Second World War finally comes to an end and a new, brighter future beckons. In the midst of central Stockholm celebrations, two strangers come together with a quick kiss, parting company immediately after. Upper-class girl Nina and kitchen hand Calle don’t yet know that their brief encounter will come to have tumultuous consequences.
The beautiful island of Sunnanö in the Swedish archipelago is home to a popular B&B run by Anna-Lisa and her son Oskar. Anna-Lisa has summoned her daughter Jonna, an actress, and son Lasse, an opportunist, to the island. It is the first time in years that they are together again. When Anna-Lisa is found dead one morning, the siblings learn that she had terminal cancer: Her will stipulates that all three siblings must run the family B&B together for a year, or they won't inherit it at all. It is a mother’s last effort to reunite her children. But it will also confront them with the family’s unsolved past, present forces of attraction, and a very dark secret buried in a most unfortunate place...
The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy. The series follows the fortunes of the upper middle class Forsyte family, and stars Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2, at a time when only a small proportion of the population had television sets able to receive this channel. It was therefore the repeat on Sunday evenings on BBC1 starting on 8 September 1968 that secured the programme's success with 18 million tuning in for the final episode in 1969. It was shown in the United States on public television and broadcast all over the world, and became the first BBC television series to be sold to the Soviet Union.
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
Epic series spanning three generations of the upwardly mobile Forsyte family at the turn of the 20th century.
In a politically, morally and economically destroyed country, three sisters of an industrialist family in post-war Germany reinvent themselves and set the course for their future.
The Kennedys of Massachusetts is a 1990 TV miniseries that aired on ABC. Focusing mainly on the fifty-four year marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy. The events depicted in the series are based upon the book by Doris Kearns Goodwin titled The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys : An American Saga. The series aired across three nights, an earned an Emmy and Golden Globe.
The story of Ingmar Bergman's parents. How they fell in love, married against the wishes of their families, and had a difficult marriage and life in rural Sweden. Bergman's father was a pastor and poor; his mother from a well to do cultured family. It ends with the birth of Ingmar.
A story of five siblings growing up in their family's crumbling manor.
