Hedda Gabler (1963, Paul Hoffmann)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Hedda Gabler |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 122 minutes |
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| Director | Paul Hoffmann |
| script |
Georg Schulte-Frohlinde Translation based on a template by Henrik Ibsen |
| production | Utz Utermann |
| music | Hans Conzelmann |
| camera | Gerhard Kruger |
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Hedda Gabler is a German television film directed by Paul Hoffmann based on the play of the same name by Henrik Ibsen . Ruth Leuwerik can be seen in the leading role of the title character, Wolfgang Kieling as her husband Jörgen Tesman and Martin Benrath as her former lover Ejlert Lövborg.
action
Hedda Gabler, daughter of a deceased general who married the scholar Jörgen Tesman, has nothing left for her husband. She thinks he is a philistine and is bored with him. Although she repeatedly provokes her husband with her exalted and inconsiderate behavior, Tesman accepts it, as does his aunt Julie, who is secretly worried about her nephew. District judge Brack, who pays regular visits to the family and also openly courting Hedda, has a clearer view of Hedda's nature. For Hedda, Brack's visits are a welcome change from her monotony, especially since she really enjoys talking to the clever man. Another hobby of Hedda is target practice, which she organizes with the pistols inherited from her father.
When Ejlert Lövborg, a childhood friend of Hedda, comes to town, she is electrified. She and Lövborg had loved each other passionately once, but Hedda had ultimately spurned him because she was of the opinion that he could not offer her the future she imagined. It looks different now, however, as Lövborg, a gifted art historian, has written a book that promises to attract attention. Hedda receives information from her former school friend Thea Elvsted that she does not like at all. There is now a close connection between Lövborg and Elvsted, the young woman was also involved in the preparation of the book and the good spirit of the art historian.
Hedda is jealous of Thea and begins to spin intrigues. Her first reunion with her former lover showed Hedda that he could never forget her. But Thea Elvsted shouldn't have it. So she gets Lövborg to start drinking again. When he causes a public scandal, he makes himself impossible, and his recently so successful career is over. The help he expects from Hedda is that she meaningfully slips him one of her pistols. In fact, this ends his life, albeit differently than Hedda planned. A shot that went off by itself and hit him in the stomach brought Lövborg to an extremely painful end.
When Hedda hears about it, she decides for herself to end her life, which seems pointless to her anyway and disgusts her. While her husband and Thea are reconstructing Lövborg's valuable manuscript in the next room, the original of which was burned by Hedda, she shoots herself.
Production notes
The production company was TV60Filmproduktion (Munich) on behalf of the Second German Television ( ZDF ). Wolf Englert created the buildings .
Hedda Gabler was first broadcast on October 30, 1963 on ZDF. The play also operated under the title The General's Daughter (New Film Program No. 3573).
criticism
In the TV program at that time on Wednesday, October 30, 1963, the play was presented as a "hopelessly pessimistic piece". "The cold unscrupulousness with which the title heroine dragged her environment into her self-inflicted misfortune seems all the more implausible as the socio-critical approach of the piece is outdated today," read on.
In the television magazine Gong No. 46 from 1963, p. 79, one could read: “With 'Hedda Gabler', Ibsen's perhaps the bitterest and most disconcerting drama hit the Mainz screen. And it was - to say it in advance - the worst production of a drama by the Norwegian poet that has ever been seen on television. Ruth Leuwerik was supposed to play the title role of the emotionally cold egoist who plays with her and others' fate. ”The critic asked how one could“ expect ”the actress in her first TV role to“ play the part of the dark demoness ”; you the "cultivated [n], lovable [n]", the "embodiment of bourgeois measure". In short: she is a “total miscast”, worse still “a joke”. It is a shame about "such honorable acting performances as those of Martin Benrath and above all Wolfgang Kieling, who, as a crazy scientist, drew a fine character study". However, they could not have saved "the dusty, unbelievable piece" either.
The critic of the television magazine Hörzu saw it completely differently . In the number 46/1963, p. 86, it was read that Ruth Leuwerik had responded bitterly to the astonished question whether she could play Hedda Gabler that she knew that she was considered a kitsch giant. The critic said: “She could do it!” And continued: “In this famous difficult role she delivered a sovereign interpretation of the complex piece. She moved safely in the fine gradations between malice and helplessness, between nervousness and tenacious intrigue, between longing and cold, and thus gave the ambiguous figure a convincing tragedy. The roles of her partners were also well filled and excellently designed. "
Web links
- Hedda Gabler at filmportal.de
- Hedda Gabler at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hedda Gabler sS tvprogramme.net. Retrieved April 14, 2018 (web.archive.org).
- ↑ a b The German-language TV game "Hedda Gabler" sS krimiserien.heimat.eu. Retrieved April 14, 2018.