Movie

Hedda Gabler (1978)

• January 1, 1978
• 1h 50m

• Drama

Overview

Jan Decorte's second feature film is an adaptation of the play Hedda Gabler by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Decorte moved the locus of action of Ibsen's realistic play from 1890 to 1950, twenty-eight years earlier than when the film was shot. The story begins when Hedda returns home from an overly long honeymoon with her newly wed but colourless husband Tesman. She is pregnant and will be courted by the writer Eljert Lövbor, an old lover who is about to break through with an exceptional novel of autobiographical quality [Avila].

Director

Jan Decorte

Writers

Jan Decorte

Starring

Bert André, Rita Wouters, Jos van Gorp