Screen Versions

Just as one’s knowledge of an Ibsen text is enriched by comparing the dramaturgical decisions made in various stage productions, a survey of available filmic materials for each play can give viewers distant in time or place from theater stagings of the plays the benefits of what might be called “version analysis.” The consciousness that results from this kind of comparison is useful both in terms of research and of pedagogy as one realizes not just the general visual potential of the text, but also the myriad decisions that must fill the gaps of what the text leaves unspecified. Where a literary text can leave many things undepicted, a visual performance can often not leave the same things blank but must instead continually commit to the specificity of the depicted world. Version comparison makes those aspects of the literary text clear.

En folkefiendeComparison of the filmic material available for an Ibsen play is made possible by the recorded aspect of the performance, which extends its reach in time and space but also creates special media-specific issues of adaptation. An “Ibsen DVD” can contain anything from a one-camera documentation of a stage performance (taken from the point of view of an ideal theater seat), to an edited multiple-camera view of a stage performance (though still performed in continuous time), to a filmic adaptation using cinematic techniques of editing (with cross-cutting or interpolations of exterior views not in the original theater text, for instance). Many of these differences boil down to simple questions of whether the camera was allowed into the playing space, or whether the performance was created piecemeal from small dramatic bits and repeated takes, as is more common in film. Furthermore, many snippets of video documentation and filmic trailers have been produced from many stage performances and uploaded to YouTube, so there is now a wide variety of visual tidbits available for each Ibsen play online, a state of affairs far exceeding Sigurd Ibsen’s already generous 1913 estimation of the future role of film in mediating his father’s plays to the world.

Given the range of filmic materials available, the ISA sees a value inGanashtru (Ray, 1989) providing some guidance and commentary on the complete Ibsen films that are available for use in research and teaching. Some of these are readily available in DVD distribution through the usual marketing channels, while others either take a bit more effort to order, or are only available in library or archive copies, or have left behind no viewing copy at all but only archival traces of supplementary or documentation materials.

The films listed for each play title include examples from a range of materials with commentary to guide understanding of the particular version in question. When the information has been available, each version is classified as either a “Filmed Theatrical Performance” (a version closely tied to the aesthetics of live performance on stage and a theatergoer’s point of view), a “TV Adaptation” (a version that allows for multi-camera editing and a more expansive setting but stays within the parameters of interior drama and a video aesthetic), and “Film Adaptation” (a version that allows for exterior views, cross-cutting, and cinematic production procedures and values). There is also an initial category listing biographical and documentary visual materials about Ibsen and his dramas.

Nazimova Doll House (1922)The entire list presented here is a living list in the sense that it is not imagined to be comprehensive in its current state: corrections, additions, and updated information are welcome and can be directed via email to the current ISA President.

Click on a title to see available film materials.

(This translation database was prepared by Ida Moen Johnson in collaboration with Mark Sandberg.)

Ibsen on Screen

Biographical Documentaries

Henrik Ibsen: A Concise Biography, 2008

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Part of the Famous Authors series.

  • Director: Malcolm Hossick
  • Run time: 30
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Cast Includes: Malcolm Hossick
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Documentary
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Løven : Henrik Ibsen, 2007

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The film documents the life of Henrik Ibsen. It showed at an American film festival, suggesting it has narration and/or subtitles in English.

  • Director: Alexander Wisting
  • Run time: 60
  • Produced in: Norway
  • Language: Norwegian, English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Narrated by Kate Pendic and Frøydis Armand
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Documentary
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Henrik Ibsen: Dramatist, 2006

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A production of Norwegian American Foundation Classic Documentary Collection and Shybert Productions. Documentary with analysis of some plays.

  • Director: Steinar Hybertsen
  • Run time: 60
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English, Norwegian
  • Subtitles: English
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Documentary
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Udødelige Ibsen! (Immortal Ibsen!), 1999

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Part of the Ibsen on Screen collection. Includes interpretations of a range of performances of Ibsen's plays.

  • Director: Erling Borgen
  • Run time: 40
  • Produced in: Norway
  • Language: Norwegian
  • Subtitles: Norwegian, English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Documentary
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Henrik Ibsen: Sphinx, who are you?, 1999

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Explores the life of Henrik Ibsen by tracing his travels, examining excerpts from his writings, and studying his detailed instructions for the performance of his contemporary dramas. -WorldCat

  • Director: Torstein Vegheim
  • Run time: 52
  • Produced in: Norway
  • Language: Norwegian
  • Subtitles: Emglish version available
  • Cast Includes: Narrated in English by Nicola Samad
  • Available formats: VHS
  • Type of production: Documentary
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Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright, 1987

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"This program, narrated by Ibsen biographer Michael Meyer, charts the development of Henrik Ibsen’s style over four periods: his early years of failure; his epic dramas; his sociological plays, and his final plays. Televised productions and theater excerpts showcase Ibsen’s works." -Films for the Humanities

  • Director: Nigel Wattis
  • Run time: 58
  • Language: English
  • Cast Includes: Narrated by Michael Meyer
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Documentary
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Brand

Brand, 1959

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The DVD is part of the BBC Henrik Ibsen Collection

  • Director: Michael Elliott
  • Run time: 90
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Patrick McGoohan, Dillys Hamlett
  • Available formats: DVD, VHS
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Brand, 1915

  • Director: Pavel Orlenev
  • Run time: 45
  • Produced in: Russia
  • Language: Silent
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Pavel Orlenev
  • Available formats: 35mm
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Doll’s House

A Doll's House, est. 2017

  • Director: Charles Huddleston
  • Cast Includes: Ben Kingsley, Michelle Martín, Nija Okoro
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Et dukkehjem, 2013

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A short film based on the play. For information contact: anders.woeldike@filmbyen.dk

  • Director: Tobias Gundorff Boesen
  • Run time: 26
  • Produced in: Denmark
  • Language: Danish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Camille-Cathrine Rommedahl, Thomas Levin, Ella Louise Bertelsen, Martin Hestbæk
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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A Doll's House, 2013

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Performed and filmed in the Victorian Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion in Philadelphia. Can be accessed on-site at the Centre for Ibsen Studies in Oslo.

  • Director: Josh Hitchins, Kyle Cassidy
  • Run time: 163
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Jennifer Summerfield
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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A Doll's House, 2012

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This Young Vic production from London is available for streaming at Digital Theatre, which "works in partnership with Britain's leading theatre companies to capture live performance authentically onscreen. Using multiple camera angles and high-definition technology, we bring the drama and emotion of each production to a global online audience."

  • Director: Simon Stephens
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Hattie Morahan, Dominic Rowan, Nick Fletcher, Steve Toussaint, Susannah Wise
  • Available formats: Streaming
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Rumah Boneka, 2011

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Can be accessed on-site at the Centre for Ibsen Studies in Oslo.

  • Director: Wawan Sofwan
  • Run time: 173
  • Produced in: Indonesia
  • Language: Indonesian
  • Subtitles: English
  • Cast Includes: Maya Hasan, Ayez Kassar (Helmer)
  • Available formats: DVD
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Mabou Mines' Dollhouse, 2008

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An original film adaptation from the New York-based avant-garde theater company that shrinks Nora's house to the size of all the male actors, none of whom are more than 4.5ft tall. The intensity of this grotesque fun house culminates in an excess of melodrama in the operatic aria that is Nora's final speech. Commissioned by Arte TV France, this film has a documentary, "Looking for a Miracle," as a bonus in which Breuer and the cast are interviewed. More information can be found at http://www.maboumines.org/

  • Director: Lee Breuer
  • Run time: 183
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Maude Mitchell, Mark Povinelli, Ricardo Gil, Kristopher Medina, Janet Girardeau
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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A Doll's House, 2008

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Filmed theater performance as part of the 'Negotiating Ibsen in South Africa' project. Can be accessed at the University of Oslo libraries.

  • Director: Robert McLaren
  • Run time: 75
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Belinda Mufute, Tiashe Rupango
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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A Doll's House, 2002

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Can be accessed at the Centre for Ibsen Studies in Oslo.

  • Director: Jack Sbarbori
  • Run time: 114
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Stephanie Mumford, John Decker
  • Available formats: VHS
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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Nora : A doll's house, 2000

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This performance was based on the stage version and adaptation by Ingmar Bergman.

  • Director: Ilan Ronen
  • Run time: 95
  • Produced in: Israel
  • Cast Includes: Anat Waxman, Ohad Schachar, Evyatat Lazar, Sara von Schwarze
  • Available formats: DVD
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Gender and Performance: A Doll's House, 1996

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Filmed at the Oval House Theatre in London. Focusing on the final scene of Ibsen's A Doll's House, which is presented by the same actors and production team in three different sets and costumes, this program examines how the gender issues raised by the play can be interpreted in different ways. Available at http://www.amazon.co.uk.

  • Director: Mags Noble
  • Run time: 159
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Cast Includes: Lizbeth Goodman, Richard Allen
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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Sara, 1992

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This often-studied Iranian film adaptation of A Doll's House is available for DVD purchase through www.facetsdvd.com.

  • Director: Dariush Mehrjui
  • Run time: 102
  • Produced in: Iran
  • Language: Persian
  • Subtitles: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Niki Karimi, Amin Tarokh, Khosro Shakibai, Yasman Malek-Nasr
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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A Doll's House, 1992

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Part of the BBC Henrik Ibsen Collection available on DVD. A masterful performance by Stevenson that reveals the nuances of Nora's actions. Eve's Torvald is so powerful that it is hard to be thoroughly convinced of his confusion at the end of the play.

  • Director: David Thacker
  • Run time: 137
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: None
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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Nora Helmer, 1974

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Produced by Saarlaändischer Rundfunk, this highly Brechtian version of the play uses multiple aestheticizing and distancing effects; it is the ultimate anti-naturalist staging of the play. The full film with English subtitles can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv4DqeG0lu8

  • Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: German
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Margit Carstensen, Joachim Hansen, Barbara Valentin, Ulli Lommel, Klaus Löwitsch
  • Available formats: VHS
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Nora, oder ein Puppenheim, 1973

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Production by Schauspiel Frankfurt. This version is famous for Nora's departure by ladder through a backstage window and the ironic stance of its ending.

  • Director: Hans Neuenfels
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: German
  • Cast Includes: Elisabeth Trissenaar, Peter Roggisch
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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A Doll's House, 1973

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This is one of the best-known film adaptations of the play in English with two strong actors in the lead roles, Claire Bloom and Anthony Hopkins. Readily available on DVD.

  • Director: Partrick Garland
  • Run time: 95
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: None
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Anna Massey
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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A Doll's House, 1973

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This film adaptation opens up the space of the drama with exterior shots and flashbacks. This version features overly polemical performances by Jane Fonda and David Warner in the lead roles, but is useful in tandem with the Garland version from the same year. Excerpts from the beginning and end of the Losey version are included in the video Fem Ganger Et Dukkehjem (5 x A Doll's House).

  • Director: Joseph Losey
  • Run time: 99
  • Produced in: UK, France
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Jane Fonda, David Warner, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard
  • Available formats: VHS
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Et dukkehjem, 1973

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Part of the "Ibsen på fjernsyn" collection from the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK). Excerpts from the beginning and end of this Brinchmann version are included in the video Fem Ganger Et Dukkehjem (5 x A Doll's House).

  • Director: Arild Brinchmann
  • Run time: 145
  • Produced in: Norway
  • Language: Norwegian
  • Subtitles: Norwegian & English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Lise Fjeldstad, Knut Risan
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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A Doll's House, 1970

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Produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV Sunday Night Theatre.

  • Director: Joan Kemp Welch
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Cast Includes: Anna Massey, Julian Glover, Paul Daneman, George Murcell, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
  • Available formats: VHS
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Ett dockhem, 1970

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Produced for Swedish TV. Excerpts from the beginning and end of this Swedish version are included in the video Fem Ganger Et Dukkehjem (5 x A Doll's House).

  • Director: Per Sjöstrand
  • Produced in: Sweden
  • Language: Swedish
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Solveig Ternström, Olof Bergström
  • Available formats: VHS
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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A Doll's House, 1959

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Was telecast live on November 15, 1959.

  • Director: George Schaefer
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer, Hume Cronyn, Eileen Heckart, Jason Robards
  • Available formats: VHS
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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A Doll's House, 1950

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Part of the NBC television collection at the Library of Congress.

  • Director: Edmund Rice
  • Run time: 60
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Felicia Montealegre, Theodore Newton
  • Available formats: VHS
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Doll's House, 1950

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U.S. television version on the Hallmark Hall of Fame: “A Doll’s House” (NBC, 11/15/59). Can be accessed at the UCLA Film and Television Archive: www.cinema.ucla.edu/restoration/television-programs-preserved-ucla

  • Director: Joe Conn
  • Run time: 45
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Francis Lederer, Jane Darwell, Lyle Talbot, Helen Parrish
  • Available formats: 16mm
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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Nora, 1944

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UFA production, referenced in the appendix to Egil Tönqvist's IBSEN: A DOLL'S HOUSE.

  • Director: Harald Braun
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: German
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Luise Ullrich, Viktor Staal
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Nora, 1943

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Referenced in the appendix to Egil Tönqvist's IBSEN: A DOLL'S HOUSE.

  • Director: Ernesto Aranciba
  • Produced in: Argentina
  • Language: Spanish
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Delia Garcés, Georges Rigaud
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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A Doll's House, 1922

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There are no surviving copies of this film, but Library of Congress records list it at a feature length of 7 reels (6,650 ft.), so it was likely not drastically condensed. The distribution studio for this film was United Artists. For more information, see http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DollsHouse1922.html

  • Director: Charles Bryant
  • Run time: 70
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: Silent (English intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Alla Nazimova, Alan Hale, Nigel de Brulier, Wedgwood Nowell, Florence Fisher
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Nora, 1922

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This was filmed in Berlin by UFA in two versions, one with the original ending and one with Ibsen's so-called "German ending," according to A GLOBAL DOLL'S HOUSE (ed. Holledge et al). No surviving copy of this film is available.

  • Director: Berthold Viertel
  • Run time: 78
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: Silent (German intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Olga Tschechowa, Carl Ebert, Fritz Kortner, Anton Edthofer, Lucie Höflich
  • Available formats: 35mm
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Casa di Bambola, 1919

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No copy of this film survives.

  • Director: Febo Mari
  • Run time: 56
  • Produced in: Italy
  • Language: Silent (Italian intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Nietta Mordeglia, Febo Mari, Oreste Grandi, Vittorio Tettoni
  • Available formats: 35mm
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A Doll's House, 1918

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Produced and distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, with original length listed at 5 reels (4,576 ft.). No extant copy of this film is available. For more information, see: http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DollsHouse1918.html

  • Director: Maurice Tourneur
  • Run time: 50
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: Silent (English intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Elsie Ferguson, Holmes E. Herbert
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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A Doll's House, 1917

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This film is not thought to have survived (seeing Lon Chaney as Krogstad would have been a great pleasure, though!). It was produced by Bluebird Photoplays under the Universal Film Manufacturing Company. Original length: 5 reels (4,921 ft.). A review in Moving Picture World (June 16, 1917) states: "The absence of the theatrical in the Ibsen method and the difficulty of conveying fine shades of meaning in the dialogue without the aid of speech render the task of the actors in the cast doubly hard. Dorothy Phillips, as Nora, supplies much of the requisite temperament, but does not stand comparison to the actresses who have won distinction with the part in its original form. Her movements in some of the scenes are so hurried they are almost blurred."

  • Director: Joseph De Grasse
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: Silent
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Dorothy Phillips, William Stowell, Lon Chaney, Sydney Deane, Miriam Shelby
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Ee Zertva, 1917

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The English translation of the title is "Her Sacrifice." No archival copy exists for this film.

  • Director: Tsjeslav Genrikovitsj Sabinsky
  • Produced in: Russia
  • Language: Silent (Russian intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Olga Gzovskaja, Vladimir Giorgievitsj Gajdarov
  • Available formats: 35mm
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A Doll's House, 1915

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No copy exists today.

  • Director: Allan Holubar
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: Silent
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Dorothy Phillips
  • Available formats: 35mm
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A Doll's House, 1911

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Produced by the Thanhouser Film Company, this one-reeler (ca. 980 ft.) is no longer extant, but at this length would have been a highly compressed version of the play (15-20 mins.). Like many film adaptations made between 1907 and 1913, this version likely assumed the audience was already familiar with the play, which could then be shown in redacted form.

  • Director:
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: Silent
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Available formats: 35mm
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Enemy of the People

An Enemy of the People, 2007

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Available on Amazon Instant Video. This is an amateurish, poorly shot, clumsily staged version--not recommended.

  • Director: Aj Cross
  • Run time: 107
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Kamran Cahn, Nicola Bick
  • Available formats: Streaming
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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En Folkefiende, 2004

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A modern adaptation of Enemy that transforms Stockmann into a TV celebrity doctor who returns home to a small town to open a spring water bottling plant with his brother. The town hall meeting is cleverly transformed into a kind of reality show debate in which the audience votes for the winner. Erik Skjoldbaerg is one of Norway's best known contemporary directors and the script is written by author Nikolaj Frobenius.

  • Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg
  • Run time: 87
  • Produced in: Norway
  • Language: Norwegian
  • Subtitles: Norwegian, English, Italian
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Jørgen Langhelle, Sven Nordin.
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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An Enemy of the People, 1990

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Set in nineteenth century Maine and based on Arthur Miller's adaptation.

  • Director: Jack O'Brien
  • Run time: 118
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: John Glover, George Grizzard, Valerie Mahaffey, William Anton
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Ganashatru, 1989

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This version by the internationally famous art-film director Satyajit Ray (PATHER PANCHALI, THE WORLD OF APU) visualizes the original play in middle-class Bengali socieity. Also included in the "Satyajit Ray Collection - Volume 3" set.

  • Director: Satyajit Ray
  • Run time: 99
  • Produced in: India
  • Language: Bengali
  • Subtitles: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Satya Banerjee, Dhritiman Chatterjee
  • Available formats: DVD, VHS
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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An Enemy of the People, 1980

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Part of the BBC Henrik Ibsen Collection.

  • Director: Gareth Davies
  • Run time: 82
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Robert Urquhart
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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An Enemy of the People, 1978

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Based on Arthur Miller's adaptation of Ibsen's play. Stockmann is played as a crusading idealist by McQueen (of BULLITT fame in 1968), and Bibi Anderson sets aside Ingmar Bergman's films to play Mrs. Stockmann. Available at WBShop.com.

  • Director: George Schaefer
  • Run time: 106
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Steve McQueen, Bibi Anderson, Charles Durning, Richard Dysart
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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An Enemy of the People, 1966

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Part of the Broadway Theater Archive that uses Arthur Miller's adaptation.

  • Director: Paul Bogart
  • Run time: 112
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: James Daly, Kate Reid, Lou Gilbert, Philip Bosco
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Ghosts

Ghosts, 2014

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This Almeida Theatre/West End production from London is available for streaming at Digital Theatre, which "works in partnership with Britain's leading theatre companies to capture live performance authentically onscreen. Using multiple camera angles and high-definition technology, we bring the drama and emotion of each production to a global online audience." Also available on DVD.

  • Director: Richard Eyre
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Lesley Manville
  • Available formats: DVD, Streaming
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Gengångare, 2011

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An SVT filming of the Stockholm Stadsteater production.

  • Director: Sofia Jupither, Christer Molander
  • Run time: 90
  • Produced in: Sweden
  • Language: Swedish
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Helena Bergström, Karl Malmberg, Gerhard Hoberstorfer, Christer Fant, Katharina Cohen
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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Ghosts: A Family Drama, 2007

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Uses the William Archer translation. Produced by Elysium Films for Academy Media. DVD is available.

  • Director: Malcolm Hossick
  • Run time: 128
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Robert Cameron, Leslie Clack, Liz Cassie, Graham Bowe
  • Available formats: DVD
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Gengangere, 2000

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Danmarks Radio filming of the Royal Theater production, featuring well-known Danish actors and the prominent Norwegian director Terje Mærli.

  • Director: Terje Mærli
  • Produced in: Denmark
  • Language: Danish
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Ghita Nørby, Jørgen Reenberg, Sofie Gråbøl, Olaf Johannessen
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Ghosts, 1997

  • Director: Ryan Cunningham
  • Run time: 60
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Kelly Caruss, Nick Casonguay, Ryan Cunningham, Jeff Frame
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Gengångare, 1989

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An SVT TV-drama production of GHOSTS.

  • Director: Margreta Garpe
  • Run time: 100
  • Produced in: Sweden
  • Language: Swedish
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Agneta Ekmanner, Gerhard Hoberstorfer, Gustav Kling, Sten Ljunggren, Gunilla Röör
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Ghosts, 1987

Comments

Part of the BBC Henrik Ibsen Collection. Also included in the "Judy Dench BBC Collection 1966-1990." Strong lead performances, but the staging is typical television drama.

  • Director: Elijah Moshinsky
  • Run time: 103
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Gambon
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Gespenster, 1983

Comments

It is uncertain whether this DDR production of GHOSTS from before the fall of the wall is available, but it would be fascinating to see it. Produced by Fernsehen der DDR.

  • Director: Thomas Langhoff
  • Run time: 135
  • Produced in: German Democratic Republic
  • Language: German
  • Cast Includes: Inge Keller, Ulrich Mühe, Dietrich Körner, Kurt Böwe, Simone von Zglinicki
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Ghosts, 1977

Comments

Filmed in period costumes and settings, this production sticks closely to the text with only some minor cuts. DVD can be found, but at special educational pricing it is expensive.

  • Director: David Cunliffe
  • Run time: 90
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Dorothy Tutin, Richard Pasco, Ronald Fraser
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Gespenster, 1922

Comments

Carl Boese's production company was responsible for this 6-reel version (8,185 ft.) of the play—quite a long film. For more information, see: http://www.filmportal.de/film/gespenster_ac2ba06ef4294791a13b7782e63efe80

  • Director: Carl Boese
  • Run time: 90
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: Silent (German intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Kurt Brenkendorf, Lory Evans
  • Available formats: 35mm
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Gespenster, 1918

  • Director: Otto Kreisler
  • Run time: 66
  • Produced in: Austria
  • Language: Silent (German intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Erika Wagner, Anton Edthofer
  • Available formats: 35mm
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Gli Spettri, 1918

Comments

Zacconi was a leading Ibsen actor and mediator of Ibsen's dramas in Italy, so this would be an interesting visual document of Italian Ibsen performance if the film had survived.

  • Director: A. G. Caldiera
  • Run time: 53
  • Produced in: Italy
  • Language: Silent (Italian intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Ines Cristina-Zacconi, Ermete Zacconi
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Ghosts, 1915

Comments

VARIETY (June 1915): "After the Captain dies, Walthall enacts the role of the son, Oswald, who has inherited his father's craving for drink, has unmistakable symptoms of epilepsy and looks upon the weaker sex as objects only to satisfy his lust. And then comes the awful, bitter realization when the family physician stops his wedding to Regina, a neighbor's daughter, and informs the contracting parties the bride-to-be is none other than Oswald's half-sister, Oswald's father having had illegitimate relations with his neighbor's wife."

  • Director: John Emerson, George Nicholls
  • Run time: 49
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: Silent
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Mary Alden, Henry B. Walthall
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Prividenija, 1915

  • Director: Vladimir Rostislavovitsj Gardin
  • Produced in: Russia
  • Language: Silent (Russian intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Pavel Orlenev
  • Available formats: 35mm
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Sins of the Father, 1911

Comments

Lubin (production)

  • Director:
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: Silent (English intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Teresa Dale
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler, 2015

Comments

This version turns the play into a lavish British costume drama, shot in high definition with generous departures from the original text. Many outdoor scenes, with originally off-stage places and characters getting the full treatment.

  • Director: Matthew John
  • Run time: 90
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Rita Ramnani, David R. Butler, Samantha E. Hunt, Jon-Paul Gates
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Hedda Gabler, 2008

Comments

Produced by Aurora Publishing Co. Productions with shoestring production values, this version went straight to DVD as a self-financed project. Not professional film quality.

  • Director: Ben E. Eld
  • Run time: 90
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Jeanne LynnGray, Greg Schroeder
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Hedda, or Aspiration sky high, 2006

Comments

This prize-winning adaptation of the play to the Chinese Yue opera form has can be accessed on DVD on-site at the Centre for Ibsen Studies in Oslo.

  • Director: Zhi Tao
  • Run time: 97
  • Produced in: China
  • Language: Chinese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Zhou Yujun, Chen Xueping
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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Hedda Gabler, 2004

Comments

This is an independent film adaptation set in contemporary American surroundings in the small-town Pacific Northwest. Experiments with visual film techniques more than usual for film adaptations of Ibsen.

  • Director: Paul Willis
  • Run time: 90
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Matt Ford, Heidi Schreck, Sherry Chastain Schreck, Tricia Rodley
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Hedda Gabler, 2002

Comments

Recorded production of the Riverwalk Theatre in Lansing, MI.

  • Director: Bob Gras
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Rick Dethlefsen, Monica Harris
  • Available formats: VHS
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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Hedda Gabler, 1993

Comments

BBC/WGBH coproduction. It aired on Masterpiece Theater on PBS stations in the U.S. A DVD can be accessed for use on-site a the Centre for Ibsen Studies in Oslo. There are also DVDs available at (expensive) educational pricing.

  • Director: Deborah Warner
  • Run time: 127
  • Produced in: US, Scotland
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Fiona Shaw, Nicholas Woodeson
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Hedda Gabler, 1981

Comments

A flat and somewhat stagy version of the play, with Diana Rigg as a cold, severe Hedda. DVDs are available.

  • Director: David Cunliffe
  • Run time: 78
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Diana Rigg, Kathleen Byron, Alan Dobie
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Hedda Gabler, 1976

Comments

BBC TV Theater production.

  • Director: Waris Hussein
  • Run time: 113
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Janet Suzman, Ian McKellen, Tom Bell, Jane Asher
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Hedda, 1975

Comments

This is Trevor Nunn's film adaptation of his own stage production with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Glenda Jackson plays Hedda as a flinty, sarcastic character. Harder to find on DVD.

  • Director: Trevor Nunn
  • Run time: 103
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Glenda Jackson, Peter Eyre, Timothy West, Patrick Stewart
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Hedda Gabler, 1962

Comments

Part of the BBC Henrik Ibsen Collection.

  • Director: Alex Segal
  • Run time: 75
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Ingrid Bergman, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Hedda Gabler, 1953

Comments

Originally broadacast on ABC. Part of the U.S. Steel hour between 1953-1963. Low-quality videos of this performance can be found on YouTube.

  • Director: Alex Segal
  • Run time: 60
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Tallulah Bankhead, Luther Adler
  • Available formats: 16mm
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Hedda Gabler, 1924

Comments

Seeing the great silent movie actress Asta Nielsen, who also played a gender-bending Hamlet in 1921, play Hedda Gabler would have been a treat. The film was produced by National-Film and its original length was 8455 feet. The film is not thought to have survived.

  • Director: Franz Eckstein
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: Silent (German intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Asta Nielsen, Paul Morgan
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Hedda Gabler, 1920

  • Director: Piero Fosco (Giovanni Pastrone)
  • Run time: 106
  • Produced in: Italy
  • Language: Silent (Italian intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Italia Almirante-Manzini, Ettore Piergiovanni
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Hedda Gabler, 1917

Comments

Produced by Frank Powell Producing Corp.

  • Director: Frank Powell
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: Silent (English intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Nance O’Neil, Aubrey Beattie, Einar Linden, Ruth Byron
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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John Gabriel Borkman

John Gabriel Borkman, 2011

Comments

A new version by Frank McGuinness.

  • Director: James Macdonald
  • Run time: 120
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Alan Rickman, Lindsay Duncan, Fiona Shaw
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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Lady from the Sea

Star Quest, 1989

Comments

Sci-fi film loosely based on the plot of LADY FROM THE SEA. But with spaceships in the year 2200.

  • Director: Victor Alexander
  • Run time: 83
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Liv Alexander, Ermal Williamson
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Fruen Fra Havet, 1979

Comments

Part of the Ibsen on Television collection from the Norwegian Braodcasting Company.

  • Director: Per Bronken
  • Run time: 121
  • Produced in: Norway
  • Language: Norwegian
  • Subtitles: Norwegian, English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Liv Ullmann, Finn Kvalem
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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The Lady From the Sea, 1974

Comments

Part of the BBC Henrik Ibsen Collection.

  • Director: Basil Coleman
  • Run time: 87
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Eileen Atkins, Denholm Elliott
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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La Donna del Mare, 1922

  • Director: Nino Valentini
  • Produced in: Italy
  • Language: Silent
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Renée Pelar, Roberto Villani
  • Available formats: 35mm
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The Lady From the Sea, 1911

Comments

A Thanhouser production, one of their literary adaptation films. This was a one-reel film, so no more than 15-20 mins running time. Moving Picture World states: "the film shows what she was in the days of her early youth, it develops her character gradually and we see every important step in the development take place before our very eyes." But still within 15 mins.

  • Director: Theodore Marston
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: Silent
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Marguerite Snow, William Russel
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Lady Inger of Østraat

Fru Inger til Østråt, 1975

Comments

Part of the Ibsen on Screen collection.

  • Director: Sverre Undnæs
  • Run time: 97
  • Produced in: Norway
  • Language: Norwegian
  • Subtitles: English, Norwegian
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Ingerid Vardund, Hennika Skjønberg, Frits Helmuth, Lasse Kolstad
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Little Eyolf

The Frost, 2008

Comments

A contemporary adaptation of Little Eyolf, filmed in Ålesund Norway but in accented English. Explores the psychological aspects of sexuality, guilt, and grief in a contemporary way.

  • Director: Ferran Audi
  • Run time: 103
  • Produced in: Norway
  • Language: English & Norwegian
  • Subtitles: Norwegian
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Trond Espen Sei, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Bibi Andersson
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Little Eyolf, 1982

Comments

Part of the BBC Henrik Ibsen Collection.

  • Director: Michael Darlow
  • Run time: 95
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Diana Rigg, Anthony Hopkins, Peggy Ashcroft, Charles Dance.
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Master Builder

Fear of Falling, 2014

Comments

Adaptation of the play with a screenplay by Wallace Shawn. The "translation" was done by Shawn, who does not read Norwegian, so it should be seen as a free adaptation with many new interpolations. A review in VARIETY states: "One of the biggest problems, though, is the performances. It’s hard to believe this was rehearsed for more than 10 years, given the actors’ overtheatricality, which would feel oppressive even onstage."

  • Director: Jonathan Demme
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Wallace Shawn, Julie Hagerty
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Aakasha Gopuram, 2008

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This Indian feature adaptation of the play was filmed in contemporary European settings. The title translates literally into English as "Castles in the Air." Although advertised as an "homage" to Ibsen's play, the film retains the basic dramaturgical structure and dialogue of the play while ranging freely between interior and exterior locations, between present and past. Film website: http://www.aakashagopuram.com. DVD is available through international websites specializing in Indian film distribution.

  • Director: K.P. Kumaran
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: Malayalam
  • Subtitles: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: MohanLal, Swetha Menon, Nithya Menon
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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The Master Builder, 1988

Comments

Part of the BBC Henrik Ibsen Collection.

  • Director: Michael Darlow
  • Run time: 138
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Leo McKern, Miranda Richardson
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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The Master Builder, 1960

Comments

Part of the Broadway Theater Archive collection. Uses Eva La Galliene's translation.

  • Director: John Stix & Richard Lukin
  • Run time: 103
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: E.G.Marshall, Lois Smith, Phyllis Love, Fred Steward
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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The Master Builder, 1958

Comments

Part of the BBC Henrik Ibsen Collection.

  • Director: Michael Darlow
  • Run time: 90
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Donald Wolfit, Mai Zetterling
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt, 2009

Comments

Heinz Spoerli's ballet of Ibsen's original with music by Edvard Greig filmed in high definition at the Zurich Opera House in 2008. DVD is readily available through the usual outlets.

  • Director: Andy Sommer
  • Run time: 110
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: German
  • Subtitles: English, French
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Marij Rademaker, Philipp Schepmann
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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Gatas Gynt (Peer Gynt from the Streets), 2008

Comments

A dramatization of the fifth act of Peer Gynt using homeless amateur actors in the roles, with both theatrical and documentary elements. The project was co-sponsored by the Salvation Army. This production has been of recent interest to several ISA scholars, including in this article by Ellen Rees: http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3382

  • Director: Hallvard Braein
  • Run time: 60
  • Produced in: Norway
  • Language: Norwegian
  • Subtitles: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Egil Schønhard, Per Kristian Smuk, Johan Fjølstad, Synnøve Søberg
  • Available formats: DVD, Streaming
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Peer Gynt - by the Pyramids in Giza, 2006

Comments

The Giza performance was the culmination of the Norwegian Ibsen Year in 2006. Music by Edvard Grieg. With the phasing out of DVD sales at the Norwegian Film Institute's Filmbutikken, the best sources for this DVD are the Ibsen museums in Oslo and Skien. The best critique of this production can be found in Frode Helland's IBSEN IN PRACTICE.

  • Director: Bentein Baardson
  • Run time: 93
  • Produced in: Norway, Egypt
  • Language: Norwegian
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegain, Spanish, Swedish
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Bjarte Hjelmeland, Lise Fjeldstad
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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Peer Gynt, 2006

Comments

This German version includes many cuts, rewritings, and free adaptation of Ibsen's play. It was shot on the island of Usedom in the Baltic Sea, and is discussed thoroughly in an article by Tanya Thresher at: http://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/3385/3257

  • Director: Uwe Janson
  • Run time: 80
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: German
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Robert Stadlober, Susanne-Marie Wrage, Karoline Herfurth, Kathrin Angerer, Max Hopp
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Peer Gynt (Peter Zadek inszeniert Peer Gynt), 2005

Comments

A documentary following Peter Zadek's dramatization of Peer Gynt with the Berliner Ensemble.

  • Director: Alexander Nanau
  • Run time: 86
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: German
  • Subtitles: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Uwe Bohm, Angela Winkler, Peter Zadek
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Documentary
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Peer Gynt, 1999

Comments

This production comes from the theater at the University of British Columbia. Based on an adaptation by Errol Durbach.

  • Director: John Wright
  • Run time: 160
  • Produced in: Canada
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Craig Lapthorne, Eric Schneider, Trina McClure, Nicole Braber
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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The Adventures of Peer Gynt, 1991

Comments

A Jim Gamble Puppet production with Grieg's music. Available at the Jim Gamble website: http://www.jimgamble.com/videos/videos.html

  • Director: Jim Gamble
  • Run time: 30
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Available formats: DVD, VHS
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Peer Gynt (aka Dark of the Moon), 1952

Comments

Broadcast on NBC as part of the Cameo Theater series. This was a three-part musical condensation of the play. Available for viewing in a 16mm archival research copy at the UCLA Film and Television archives.

  • Director: Albert McCleery
  • Run time: 90
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Douglass Montgomery
  • Available formats: 16mm
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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Peer Gynt, 1941

Comments

A black and white amateur 16 mm film adaptation created as a university project featuring 17-year old Charlton Heston in his film debut.

  • Director: David Bradley
  • Run time: 100
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: Silent (English intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Charlton Heston, Betty Hanisee
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Peer Gynt, 1934

Comments

Produced by Tonfilm-Fabrikations GmbH (Berlin). For more information, see: http://www.filmportal.de/film/peer-gynt_01c3dbe0d46c462982c09af8949738fc

  • Director: Fritz Wendhausen
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: German
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Hans Albers, Lucie Höflich, Marieluise Claudius
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Das Blut Der Ahnen: Eine Tragödie für den Film in einem Vorspiel und fünf Akten, 1920

Comments

Produced by Decla-Bioscop AG (Berlin). The script for this film was written by Robert Wiene soon after he directed The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Original length was 6 reels (6,234 ft.). There is no extant copy of the film that survives, so there is disagreement about whether this film was at all related to PEER GYNT in reality. Plot descriptions and character lists from the time indicate that it would have had to be a very free adaptation of the play, if it was at all.

  • Director: Karl Gerhardt
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: Silent (German intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Robert Scholz, Maria Zelenka, Harald Paulsen, Lil Dagover
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Peer Gynt - 1 Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend, 2 Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod, 1918

Comments

Archival copies available at the German Film Institute/DIF (Frankfurt) and at EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam).

  • Director: Victor Barnowsky
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: Silent (German intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Heinz Salfner, Ilka Grüning, Lina Lossen
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Peer Gynt, 1915

Comments

This was the first feature-length version of PEER GYNT and was based on the Broadway staging of the play by Oliver Morosco. Archival copies available for reference at the Library of Congress and the British Film Institute. Only 4 of the original 5 reels are preserved.

  • Director: Oscar Apfel
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: Silent
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Cyril Maude
  • Available formats: 35mm
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Pillars of Society

Pillars of Society, 1920

Comments

Parts were shot on location in Norway. For fascinating production stills from this non-extant film, see: http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7d8c541d

  • Director: Rex Wilson
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: Silent (English intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Norman McKinnel, Ellen Terry, Mary Rorke
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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The Pillars of Society, 1916

Comments

An incomplete copy of the film is held at the Library of Congress, with only reels 1, 3, and 4 of the original 5 reels. For more information, see: https://lccn.loc.gov/91725745
From Motion Picture News (June 12, 1915): "For scenes in the Reliance M.M.P. "Pillars of Society" adaptation from Ibsen's play, a large ocean liner was leased for several days, and scenes made several miles out from the coast of a schooner burning and women and children being rescued from the vessel."

  • Director: Raoul Walsh
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: Silent (English intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Henry Walthall
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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The Pillars of Society, 1911

Comments

Production by the Thanhouser Company. From Motion Picture World (1911, p. 926): "This is the original 'Ibsen Film'—the initial Ibsen play to be put into moving pictures. And many think it the very masterpiece of the great playwright who has just departed. And we, on our part, feel that if he had been spared to see the 'first print' of the film of his play as we saw it the other day in our inspection room, he would have enthused over it every jot as much as we did."

  • Director:
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: Silent (English intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Martin Faust, Julia M. Taylor
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Rosmersholm

Rosmersholm, 2008

Comments

DVD of the 2008 Burgtheater production.

  • Director:
  • Produced in: Austria
  • Language: German
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Annemarie Düringer, Angela Winkler, Peter Fitz, Gert Voss
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Rosmersholm, 2001

Comments

Part of the Ibsen on Television collection from the Norwegian Broadcasting Company.

  • Director: Terje Mærli
  • Run time: 126
  • Produced in: Norway
  • Language: Norwegian
  • Subtitles: Norwegian, English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Laila Gody, Bjørn Skagestad
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Terje Vigen

Terje Vigen, 1920

Comments

Production by Robert Glombeck (Berlin). Listed at filmportal.de with incomplete information: http://www.filmportal.de/film/terje-vigen_406a94ca10a24fe3b7cef3675f771682

  • Director:
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: Silent (German intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Terje Vigen (aka A Man There Was), 1917

Comments

Part of the Ibsen on Screen collection and also released as a separate DVD.

  • Director: Victor Sjöström
  • Run time: 60
  • Produced in: Sweden
  • Language: Silent (Norwegian intertitles)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Victor Sjöström
  • Available formats: DVD, VHS
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Terje Vigen, 1910

Comments

A Deutsche Bioscop production in one-reel format. Referenced with incomplete information at: http://www.filmportal.de/film/terje-vigen_4d74032722434a6f9462f2a2ffe80fa5

  • Director:
  • Run time: 18
  • Produced in: Germany
  • Language: Silent (German intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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When We Dead Awaken

Kogda my, myortvye, voskresnem?, 1918

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A six-reel production by Literfilm. The Russian title is an adjustment of Ibsen's: it translates as "When will we dead awaken?" and it is this title that is used for the film in English.

  • Director: Yakov Poselsky
  • Produced in: Russia
  • Language: Silent (Russian intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Mikhail Doronin, S. Volkhovskaya, L. Zhukov
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Wild Duck

The Wild Duck, 1999

Comments

Excerpts from act four and act five. A production for The Open University, BBC TV. Originally produced in 1975.

  • Director: Nick Levinson
  • Run time: 50
  • Produced in: USA
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Anthony Ainley, Michael Bryant, Jo Kendall
  • Available formats: VHS
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Vildanden, 1989

Comments

Swedish version available at discshop.se

  • Director: Bo Widerberg
  • Run time: 165
  • Produced in: Sweden
  • Language: Swedish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Tomas von Brömssen, Pernilla August
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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The Wild Duck, 1983

Comments

This production anglicizes the Norwegian names and provides a clear interpretation of the symbolism of the wild duck. A DVD with Danish subtitles can be found on amazon.co.uk.

  • Director: Henri Safran
  • Run time: 96
  • Produced in: Australia
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Jeremy Irons, Liv Ullmann
  • Available formats: DVD, VHS
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Die Wildente, 1976

Comments

The performance as Gina here was the film star Jean Seberg's last film role. For the award-winning actor Bruno Ganz, however, his performance of Gregers here was one of his first film roles.

  • Director: Hans W. Geisendörfer
  • Produced in: Germany, Austria
  • Language: German
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Bruno Ganz, Peter Kern, Anne Bennent, Jean Seberg, Heinz Bennent
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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The Wild Duck, 1975

Comments

Production of The Open University, BBC TV. Only available in the US and Canada. Excerpts from Acts Four and Five.

  • Director: The Open University
  • Run time: 50
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Anthony Ainley, Michael Bryant, Jo Kendall
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Filmed Theatrical Performance
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The Wild Duck, 1971

Comments

Part of the BBC Henrik Ibsen Collection. This DVD is readily available at the usual outlets.

  • Director: Alan Bridges
  • Run time: 88
  • Produced in: UK
  • Language: English
  • Black and White or color: Color
  • Cast Includes: Denholm Elliot, Jenny Agutter
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Vildanden, 1970

Comments

Part of the Ibsen on Television collection from the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK). This DVD box set may now be out of distribution, but can be found in many university reference media collections.

  • Director: Arild Brinchmann
  • Run time: 151
  • Produced in: Norway
  • Language: Norwegian
  • Subtitles: English, Norwegian
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Tor Stokke, Espen Skjønberg, Mona Hofland
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: TV Adaptation
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Vildanden, 1963

Comments

Part of the Ibsen on Screen Collection from the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK). This DVD box set may now be out of distribution, but can be found in many university reference media collections.

  • Director: Tancred Ibsen
  • Run time: 105
  • Produced in: Norway
  • Language: Norwegian
  • Subtitles: English, Norwegian
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Henki Kolstad, Wenche Foss, Lars Nordrum
  • Available formats: DVD
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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Das Haus der Lüge, 1925

Comments

Production by Rex-Film AG (Berlin). German title translates as "House of Lies," but the film is closely based on Ibsen's characters in The Wild Duck. Lucie Höflich, who plays Gina here, also played Nora and Solveig in other German Ibsen films.

  • Director: Lupu Pick
  • Run time: 101
  • Produced in: German
  • Language: Silent (German intertitles)
  • Black and White or color: Black and White
  • Cast Includes: Walter Janssen, Werner Kraus, Lucie Höflich
  • Available formats: 35mm
  • Type of production: Film Adaptation
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