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].


Hedda Gabler (1978)
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Bert André
Eljert Lövborg
RW
Rita Wouters
Hedda
JvG
Jos van Gorp
Brack
JP
Jan Pauwels
Jörgen Tesman
RS
Rezy Schumacher
Thea Elstved
CVW
Cara Van Wersch
Julia Tesman

Sigrid Vinks
Berthe
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