Hedda Gabler (1975)
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| German title | Hedda Gabler |
| Original title | Hedda |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1975 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Trevor Nunn |
| script | Trevor Nunn |
| production | Robert Enders |
| music | Laurie Johnson |
| camera | Douglas Slocombe |
| cut | Peter Tanner |
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Hedda Gabler is a 1975 British film directed by Trevor Nunn with Glenda Jackson in the title role. The film is based on the play of the same name (1890) by Henrik Ibsen .
action
The film is based closely on Ibsen's original for the stage. The young Swede Hedda Gabler married the academic Jørgen Tesman for reasons of social recognition. With a scientifically substantiated book written by him, Jørgen hopes to obtain a doctorate on the one hand, but also a professorship at a prestigious university on the other. Hedda's marriage to Jørgen is loveless, indifference determines everyday life for both of them. This becomes particularly clear to Hedda when she learns that Ejlert Løvborg is in town. Hedda and Ejlert had a passionate love affair some time ago. Løvborg, too, has written a book of scientific importance and thus becomes a danger to Tesman's professional ambitions. Løvborg's colleague Thea, who has feelings for her boss, travels after him. Thea visits Hedda and her estranged husband and causes Hedda to feel jealous. Hedda tries to push her way between Thea and Løvborg and learns from her secrets about his life in the country. Judge Brack, who is also visiting Tesman, tells him about Løvborg's literary progress. This triggers great unrest at Tesmans.
Hedda moves away from her husband more and more and tries to revive the relationship with her old love Løvborg. He has not really overcome the failed relationship with Hedda and gets drunk after they both meet again at a party. This behavior threatens to disavow him socially. In addition, his book manuscript disappears without a trace. Hedda does not tell Ejlert Løvborg that her husband discovered the manuscript and gave it to her. She encourages Løvborg in his feeling of hopelessness and gives him a revolver, an heirloom from her father, a senior officer. Hedda burns the manuscript in a fit of jealousy towards Thea, who contributed to this opus. Ejlert Løvborg then shoots himself in the abdomen. Brack, who knows that the revolver is the Heddas, tries to blackmail them in order to make them his lover. But Hedda has become so emancipated that she prefers suicide to a new captivity in a relationship with an unloved man, and so she shoots herself.
Production notes and nominations / awards
Hedda Gabler was filmed from June 19, 1975, during the theater summer break in England, and was shown for the first time on December 19, 1975 in Los Angeles. In the country of manufacture, Great Britain, the film was only shown in February 1977. Hedda Gabler started calling in Germany on March 18, 1977.
George Barrie was the line producer. Ted Tester designed the film structures, the equipment was created by John Jarvis. The costumes are from John Napier.
Glenda Jackson's interpretation of Hedda earned her an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress. On the other hand, she won the Italian film prize David.
useful information
The film is de facto 1: 1 movie version of the season 1974/75 at London's Aldwych Theater listed Hedda Gabler -Inszenierung the Royal Shakespeare Company. Trevor Nunn also directed the stage version, and all actors took on their roles interpreted in the play in the film version. Some of the outdoor shots were taken in Scotland.
Reviews
The reviews weren't too enthusiastic, only Glenda Jackson's interpretation of Hedda received praise from time to time.
The lexicon of international film found: “An adaptation that strives to be faithful to the work, but which cannot fully exploit all the dimensions of the play. The neatness of the presentation and visual work leads to a flattening. "
"This version of" Hedda Gabler "is utterly Miss Jackson's Hedda, and I have to say it's a lot of fun to watch ... Miss Jackson's technical skill goes particularly well with a character like Hedda."
The Movie & Video Guide wrote: “Hedda Gabler achieved a minimum of vitality thanks to Jackson's striking performance in the title role. So so".
Halliwell's Film Guide characterized the film as follows: "Fairly flat rendering of the piece that received more attention than appropriate."
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hedda Gabler. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 27, 2020 .
- ^ Leonard Maltin : Movie & Video Guide, 1996 edition, p. 559
- ^ Leslie Halliwell : Halliwell's Film Guide, Seventh Edition, New York 1989, p. 454
Web links
- Hedda Gabler at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hedda in the American Film Institute Catalog