Hedda Gabler (1925)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Hedda Gabler |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1925 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Eckstein |
| script |
Rosa Porten Franz Eckstein |
| production | National-Film AG (Berlin) |
| camera | Franz Stein |
| occupation | |
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Hedda Gabler is a German silent film from 1925 based on the play by Henrik Ibsen . Asta Nielsen plays the title role .
action
Hedda Gabler recently married the academic Jürgen Tesman for reasons of social recognition. With a scientifically well-founded book written by him, he hopes to achieve both a doctorate and a professorship at the university. Hedda's marriage to Jürgen is determined by lovelessness and indifference. This becomes all the more clear to her when she learns that Eilert Lövborg is in town. Hedda and Eilert once had an intimate and passionate love affair. Lövborg has also written a book on cultural studies and could thus compete with Tesman's professional ambitions. Lövborg's colleague Thea, who has feelings for him, has followed him. Thea visits Hedda and her husband and makes Hedda feel jealous. Hedda tries to push her way between Thea and Lövborg and elicits secrets from her about his life in the country. The judge Brack, also visiting Tesman, reports to him of Lövborg's literary progress, which Tesman is more and more concerned about.
Hedda moves away from her husband more and more and tries to rekindle the relationship with Lövborg with her means. He didn't really get over the failed relationship with Hedda and gets drunk after they both meet again at a party. This behavior threatens to make it socially impossible. He also lost his book manuscript. Hedda does not tell Lövborg that her husband found the manuscript and gave it to her. She encourages Lövborg in his feeling of hopelessness and gives him a revolver, an heirloom from her father, a general. Then she burns the manuscript in a kind of attack of jealousy towards Thea, who had part in this work. Lövborg shoots himself in the abdomen. Brack, who knows that the revolver came from Hedda, now tries to blackmail her in order to make her his lover. The self-determined woman's reaction is logical: Hedda shoots herself.
Production notes
Hedda Gabler was made in the National Film Atelier in 1924 and was censored on December 30, 1924. The six-act film was premiered on March 30, 1925 in the Mozart Hall in Berlin. A youth ban has been issued.
The film structures were designed by Prof. Max Frick, the costumes by Werner Boehm. Willy Hermann was in charge of recording, while Arnold Jenssen took care of the mask.
criticism
In Paimann's film lists you can read: "The subject, dispensing with independent cinematic design, adheres quite closely to the accusation, but is still very exciting and dramatically effective. Actually, Nielsen surpasses the rest of the ensemble with her mastery of her play. Morgan outrages Sometimes easy, Steinrück gave the intriguer of Ibsen's play the foil of the violent man. Presentation and costumes correspond to the time at which the author wrote Hedda Gabler; the photos are good ".
Web links
- Hedda Gabler at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hedda Gabler at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hedda Gabler in Paimann's film lists ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
