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The Wild Duck (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Australian Film Institute

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1984 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Henri Safran

Written By:
Henrik Ibsen
Tutte Lemkow

Actors:
Liv Ullmann ..... Gina
Jeremy Irons ..... Harold
Lucinda Jones ..... Henrietta
John Meillon ..... Old Ackland
Arthur Dignam ..... Gregory
Michael Pate ..... Wardle
Rhys McConnochie ..... Mr. Roland
Colin Croft ..... Mellison
Marion Edward ..... Mrs. Summers
Peter De Salis ..... Peters
Jeff Truman ..... Johnson
Clive Marshall ..... Gray
Desmond Tester ..... Elderly Guest
Georgie Stirling ..... Caretaker

Synopsis:

Director Henri Safran adapts Henrik Ibsen's stage play to an Australian setting and a turn-of-the-century ambience in this uneven presentation of an illicit love and its consequences. Harold (Jeremy Irons) is a somewhat over-the-edge photographer who has lost out at a career in the sciences. His wife Gina (Liv Ullmann) is an opposite personality type: subdued, quiet, not prone to excessive outbursts. Harold's father the Major (John Meillon) lives with the family, which includes the daughter Henrietta (Lucinda Jones) who is slowly going blind -- and all is as normal as possible until Gregory (Arthur Dignam) shows up and in a two-day period, tragedy strikes. The prig Gregory sees it as his obligation to open up his best friend Harold's eyes with some shocking news: Henrietta is not really Harold's daughter at all, but the offspring of an illicit affair between Gregory's father and Gina. Figuring into this relationship is a wild duck that was once wounded by Gregory's father, and its symbolism looms almost too large over the rest of the complex, claustrophobic household as personalities lead events to their fateful end.

The Wild Duck (original Norwegian title: Vildanden) is an 1884 play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Director Henri Safran adapts Henrik Ibsen's stage play to an Australian setting and a turn-of-the-century ambience in this uneven presentation of an illicit love and its consequences. Harold (Jeremy Irons) is a somewhat over-the-edge photographer who has lost out at a career in the sciences. His wife Gina (Liv Ullmann) is an opposite personality type: subdued, quiet, not prone to excessive outbursts. Harold's father the Major (John Meillon) lives with the family, which includes the daughter Henrietta (Lucinda Jones) who is slowly going blind -- and all is as normal as possible until Gregory (Arthur Dignam) shows up and in a two-day period, tragedy strikes. The prig Gregory sees it as his obligation to open up his best friend Harold's eyes with some shocking news: Henrietta is not really Harold's daughter at all, but the offspring of an illicit affair between Gregory's father and Gina. Figuring into this relationship is a wild duck that was once wounded by Gregory's father, and its symbolism looms almost too large over the rest of the complex, claustrophobic household as personalities lead events to their fateful end.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 20 July, 2011.

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