Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1963 TV - Ingrid Bergman) part 7 of 7

Ingrid Bergman ... Hedda Gabler
Dilys Hamlett ... Mrs. Elvsted
Michael Redgrave ... George Tesman
Ralph Richardson ... Assesor Brack

Directed by
Alex Segal

One link to all seven parts of this Hedda Gabler in this playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=49FB9206DFD23132

"Hedda Gabler" by Henrik Ibsen

"Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
- Henrik Ibsen (The Wild Duck)


this version complete in seven parts (some cuts, Brack's part trimmed the most)


Ingrid Bergman wrote (in her autobiography 'My Story'):

When we completed the telvision version, I said to Lars (Lars Schmidt, her husband) "My God, just as I'm beginning to understand what Hedda is all about, it's finished. We shot it in three days and it's over. You know this is a very sad, because I think this play is great, and there is so much more I have to learn about this woman; I haven't got her yet. I would like to do the part in the theatre."

Jack Gould of the "New York Times" welcomed the production as an "opportunity to witness a major star's approach to a classic portrait in the history of the theatre," even though he found, "Hedda was too much the suffering heroine of the cinema, and not enough the Ibsen animal of cold cunning and temperament who savors her evil acts."

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[eilianu]

She's almost 50 in this! She is so elegant and gorgeous she looks half her age.

[centrifuge1789]

bergman is gorgeous!

thanks for uploading

[localeni]

and great music too...

[localeni]

w o w...

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

I suppose that when poets lack proper subjects for their plays no skill in composing poetic verses can remedy this defect; so Monsieur Ibsen should have composed plays about Old Norse heroines like Hervor and her cursed blade Tyrfing instead of such tales about spoiled bourgeois women who being confused by being over intelligent and bored by life; look on the female key roles in the plays of Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Euripides or Sophocles like Cordelia or Antigone!

[00Avenger17]

@anneywhere makes sense =) i came to the same conclusion after posting this =P

[anneywhere]

@00Avenger17 it's beautiful because it takes courage. and also because for once in her life, it has been dictated by her, and not by her society or anything.

[aSMARTblonde13]

@theclassicalgirl

agreed. what a genius when it comes to playwriting.

[aSMARTblonde13]

@Rookiewill

actually she thought that the bowels were very ugly, where he shot himself. in the original she was all confused when brack said that lövborg shot himself in the chest and was like, 'not in the temple?' it was so much better when she shot herself in the head.

[aSMARTblonde13]

wonderful play! i read it yesterday, and freaked out when she shot herself. the only critique i have on the movie is that in the original she shot herself in the head.

[MSam2]

Good god! But people don't do such things!

[00Avenger17]

why does she think its so "beautiful" im struggling to understand...