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Apparently he couldn't play the flute. In Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Hjalmar Ekdal renders "with sentimental expression" a brief passage from a Bohemian folk-dance. In the Adams House version he is about to let loose when the door conveniently swings open, and we never hear a note...
...high-mindedly of "the claim of the ideal." His pinched nostrils seem to sniff moral pollution in the air. He abominates his widowed father, a pompous timber merchant, accusing him of real and fancied slights to his dead mother. Taking lodgings in the modest household of a former classmate, Hjalmar Ekdal (Donald Moffat), Gregers uncovers more extensive proof of his father's evil ways. Not only did he bring lifelong disgrace to Hjalmar's father through a crooked timber deal, but he also seduced Hjalmar's wife (Betty Miller), a former housekeeper in the Werle household; Gregers...
...Hjalmar and his wife have built a happy house of illusions. In a constant alcoholic trance, Hjalmar's father stocks the attic with birds and rabbits, at which he takes an occasional potshot when he is in a hunting mood. Hjalmar himself is a dilettantish portrait photographer whose wife manages the business while he nurses the mirage that he is on the threshold of a world-shaking scientific discovery. The little girl (Jennifer Harmon) is content merely to love her supposed father and her pet wild duck...
Adapted from a 1906 drama by Swedish Playwright Hjalmar Soderberg, Gertrud dawdles over the plight of an Ibsenish opera singer, a free and independent woman who regards love as unconditional surrender. "The man must belong to me completely," she says, and all intimations of psychological complexity stop right there. Having long since abandoned a famous erotic poet on grounds that he gave too much of himself to his stanzas, Gertrud is about to leave her husband (Bendt Rothe), a lawyer with Cabinet-level aspirations. Briefly, she tries a flighty playboy-pianist who decides that "the complete absorption of one another...
Hammarskjöld's father, Hjalmar, Sweden's Prime Minister from 1914 to 1917, was one of his nation's most hated men. Vilified by socialists and liberals, accused of being pro-German, nicknamed "Hungerskjöld" during Sweden's food shortage, Hjalmar left office a bitter man, aloof, isolated, cold...