Hedda Gabler

Jan Decortes second feature film is an adaptation of the play Hedda Gabler by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen Decorte moved the locus of action of Ibsens realistic play from 1890 to 1950 twentyeight 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