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Det gode mennesket i Sezuan (1984)

Det gode mennesket i Sezuan poster
Directed by
Stein Winge
Genre
drama television series
Country
Norway
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A poor woman tries to be good in a corrupt city, but her kindness keeps backfiring. The series adapts Bertolt Brecht's play about the struggle to do right when money and survival get in the way.

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What happens

Det gode mennesket i Sezuan er en norsk drama-miniserie i to deler som ble sendt i NRK i 1984. Miniserien er basert på Bertolt Brecht skuespill med samme tittel fra 1941. Serien ble oversatt av Inger Hagerup og Liv Schøyen, og regissert av Stein Winge (som var hans debut for Fjernsynsteatret). Hovedrollen spilles av Tone Danielsen. For sin tolkning ble hun den første som mottok prisen for beste kvinnelige hovedrolle under Amandaprisen 1985. Andre sentrale roller spilles av Per Frisch, Henrik Scheele, Per Christensen d.e, Jan Ø. Wiig, Johannes Joner og Jan Hårstad. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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