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Hedda Gabler is a woman who, for financial security, has married an earnest and dutiful academic who lacks the passion and imagination that drive Hedda. When Eilert Lövborg, a former lover, returns to their city, she discovers that a new woman has rescued him from his alcoholism and given him the strength to write a brilliant book. Consumed with jealousy, Hedda seizes an opportunity to ruin Lövborg's life, and by doing so, places herself in the power of the glib and predatory Judge Brack, who longs to have his way with her. She decides to destroy his life, jealous of his love affair with another. Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson.
Hedda Gabler is a woman who, for financial security, has married an earnest and dutiful academic who lacks the passion and imagination that drive Hedda. When Eilert Lövborg, a former lover, returns to their city, she discovers that a new woman has rescued him from his alcoholism and given him the strength to write a brilliant book. Consumed with jealousy, Hedda seizes an opportunity to ruin Lövborg's life, and by doing so, places herself in the power of the glib and predatory Judge Brack, who longs to have his way with her. She decides to destroy his life, jealous of his love affair with another. Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson.
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00:01:21Now you have a new mistress, Berta.
00:01:25Heaven knows it was difficult enough for me to part with you.
00:01:28And for me too, Miss Julianne.
00:01:30After all those years with you and Miss Rena.
00:01:33Poor thing lying there helpless.
00:01:35How will she manage?
00:01:36We'll just have to make the best of it, Berta.
00:01:39George needs you.
00:01:40He really does.
00:01:42You've looked after him since he was a little boy.
00:01:44But there's another thing, Miss Julianne.
00:01:46I'm so afraid I won't please the new mistress.
00:01:49She's so particular.
00:01:50Oh, that's only natural, dear.
00:01:54After all, she's General Garbler's daughter.
00:01:57She was used to being spoiled when her father was alive.
00:02:01Do you remember when we used to see her out on her horse?
00:02:05How smart she always looked in her riding clothes.
00:02:08Oh, I never thought I'd live to see the day when she and Master George would make a match of
00:02:13it.
00:02:13Neither did I.
00:02:14By the way, Berta, you mustn't call him Master George any longer.
00:02:19It's Dr. Tisman now.
00:02:21He has got one cow, so they say.
00:02:24Good morning, my dear George.
00:02:27Good morning.
00:02:27Aunt Julie, you've come all this way so early in the morning.
00:02:31You got back from the pier all right, eh?
00:02:33Yes, quite all right, dear.
00:02:35Judge Brack saw me all the way home to my front door.
00:02:37I was sorry we didn't offer you a lift.
00:02:39But, you know, had I had such a mountain of luggage?
00:02:41Would you take that for me, Berta?
00:02:43Yes, sir.
00:02:43I'll put it in the attic.
00:02:45Do you know, Aunt Julie, I had that suitcase crammed full of notes.
00:02:48You've no idea how much I discovered from those archives I examined.
00:02:52Curious old details.
00:02:53No one had any idea existed.
00:02:55You certainly don't seem to have wasted your time on your wedding trip.
00:02:58No, I certainly haven't.
00:03:00Well, take your hat off, Aunt Julie.
00:03:02Can I help you?
00:03:03Thank you, dear.
00:03:04Oh, that's a very elegant hat you've got, Aunt Julie.
00:03:09I bought that on Hedda's account.
00:03:12I didn't want her to feel ashamed of her old aunt in case we should happen to go out together.
00:03:16Dear Aunt Julie, you think of everything, huh?
00:03:19Now, come on, sit down and let's have a cozy chat.
00:03:24Oh, it's good to see you again.
00:03:27And to know that you still have a place in your heart for your old aunts.
00:03:31Tell me, Aunt Reena, she isn't any better?
00:03:35No, dear.
00:03:36Sir, I'm afraid she'll never be any better, poor soul.
00:03:40Now that I no longer have you to look after, I don't quite know what will become of me when
00:03:45she goes.
00:03:46No, there, there, there, there.
00:03:48Oh, it seems such an age that you were away, George.
00:03:51Five whole months.
00:03:53Six.
00:03:54Six, no.
00:03:56Oh, forgive me, dear.
00:03:58Now, tell me, George, have you been over the house yet?
00:04:02Oh, yes, it's splendid.
00:04:03It's simply splendid.
00:04:05It's awfully big, though.
00:04:07I don't know what we're going to do with all those empty rooms.
00:04:11My dear George, I expect you'll find plenty of use for them a little later on.
00:04:17Oh, I expect so.
00:04:19When I get more and more books, you mean, eh?
00:04:23Yes, dear.
00:04:24It was your books I was thinking of.
00:04:26Now, well, I'm especially pleased for Hedda.
00:04:28You know, she'd always set her heart on living in this place.
00:04:31It belonged to Secretary Falk, the other cabinet minister.
00:04:34Even before we were engaged, she used to say,
00:04:36this is the one place she'd really like to live in.
00:04:39Yes, but I'm afraid you're going to find all this very expensive, my dear George.
00:04:43Very expensive.
00:04:44Oh, Judge Brack wrote to Hedda that he'd been able to secure
00:04:47very favourable terms for me.
00:04:49But you mustn't worry about it, my dear.
00:04:51In the first place, I've given security for all the carpets and the curtains.
00:04:55Security? What kind of security?
00:04:57I've borrowed on our annuity.
00:04:59But, my dear Aunt Eulie, you must be mad, simply mad.
00:05:04That annuity is all that you and Aunt Rena have to live on.
00:05:06Don't get so excited about it, dear.
00:05:08It's only a matter of form, Judge Brack says.
00:05:11Well, that's all very well.
00:05:12The only happiness I have in the world is making things easier for you, dear.
00:05:17Now you've nothing to stand in your way.
00:05:20You'll have your own salary, and soon your new book will appear.
00:05:24What's it to be about, George?
00:05:26Well, it's about the domestic handicrafts of Brabant in the Middle Ages.
00:05:30Gracious, fancy being able to write about such things.
00:05:34And, best of all, you have your wife.
00:05:37Ah.
00:05:38The wife you've longed for.
00:05:40Yes, she's the most wonderful part of it all, Aunt Eulie.
00:05:43I expect a few of my friends are a little bit jealous of me, eh?
00:05:48Good morning, Hedda.
00:05:49Good morning.
00:05:51What an early visitor you are.
00:05:53How kind of you.
00:05:55Not at all.
00:05:56And did the bride sleep well in her new home?
00:06:00Fairly well.
00:06:01I like that, Hedda.
00:06:02You were sleeping like a log when I got up.
00:06:05Fortunately.
00:06:06Oh, good heavens, what a nuisance.
00:06:08That maid has opened the window and let in a whole flood of sunlight.
00:06:10Oh, well, we'll just close it again.
00:06:12No, don't do that.
00:06:13Just draw the curtains, George.
00:06:15That will give us softer light.
00:06:17There, Hedda.
00:06:18Now you have both shade and fresh air.
00:06:20Heaven knows we need some fresh air.
00:06:23Well, do sit down, my dear Miss Tessman.
00:06:24No, no, I won't, thank you, my dear.
00:06:26Now that I know everything's all right here, I must be getting back to my poor sister.
00:06:29Well, give Aunt Rina my love and tell her I'll come in and see her this afternoon.
00:06:33Yes, dear, I will.
00:06:34Oh, good gracious me, I was almost forgetting.
00:06:37I've brought something for you.
00:06:38Oh, what is it, eh?
00:06:42Oh, how very touching my slippers, Hedda, my old bedroom slippers.
00:06:46I remember.
00:06:47You spoke of them often on our wedding trip.
00:06:50But I can't tell you how many times I've missed these.
00:06:52Look, do look at them.
00:06:53We shall never get on with this servant, George.
00:06:56Not get on with Berta?
00:06:57Well, look, she's left her old hat lying on the chair.
00:07:00But, Hedda, dear.
00:07:01Well, think if someone were to come in and see it.
00:07:03Hedda, dear, that's Aunt Yulie's hat.
00:07:07Oh, is it?
00:07:09Yes, indeed it is.
00:07:11And what's more, it's not old.
00:07:13Oh, I really, I didn't look very closely, Miss Tessman.
00:07:17It's a beautiful hat.
00:07:18It's beautiful.
00:07:19Oh, it's not as beautiful as all that.
00:07:21Now, what did I do with my parasol?
00:07:23Ah, here it is.
00:07:24For this is mine too, not Berta's.
00:07:26A new hat and a new parasol.
00:07:29Think of that, Hedda, eh?
00:07:30Lovely, I'm sure.
00:07:32Aunt Yulie, look at Hedda.
00:07:34Isn't she lovely?
00:07:35Do you know, I think she's looking even specially well.
00:07:38I think she may have filled out a little while we...
00:07:41Do we quite?
00:07:41Filled out?
00:07:42Well, you may not be able to notice it so much in that loose dress,
00:07:44but I have certain opportunities.
00:07:46You have no opportunities at all, George.
00:07:48It may have been the mountaineer.
00:07:49I'm just as I was when we left.
00:07:52Lovely.
00:07:54Lovely, lovely as Hedda.
00:07:57God bless and keep your head at his man for George's sake.
00:08:01Oh, please, let me go.
00:08:03I shan't let a day pass without coming to see you.
00:08:06Yes, do that, Aunt Yulie, do that.
00:08:08Goodbye, my dearest Hedda.
00:08:09Goodbye.
00:08:12What proud your poor father would be
00:08:14if he could see what a great man his little boy has become.
00:08:17You know you've become like a father and a mother to me.
00:08:23Oh, Hedda dear.
00:08:36If you could manage just to be a little more affectionate with her, for my sake, eh?
00:08:41I shall try to call her aunt, but that's really all I can do.
00:08:45What are you looking at, Heather?
00:08:47I'm just looking at the leaves. They are so yellow and well.
00:08:50Well, we're well into September now.
00:08:53September.
00:08:56Yes, September already.
00:08:58Is there something the matter, Heather?
00:09:01Excuse me, Mrs. Desmond. Mrs. Elstead is here.
00:09:04She called earlier this morning. She brought those flowers.
00:09:08Sheriff Elstead's wife, the one who was Miss Riesing?
00:09:11Yes, ask her to come in.
00:09:12Here's the girl with the massive hair. She was always showing off.
00:09:16An old flame of yours, I've heard.
00:09:18Oh, that didn't last long. That was before I met you, Heather.
00:09:22I wonder what she's doing in town.
00:09:24I haven't seen her for years. Why should she call on us?
00:09:26Oh, my dear Mrs. Elstead, I'm delighted to see you again.
00:09:31It's been a very long time.
00:09:33It's been a long time since we met, too.
00:09:35Thank you for your lovely flowers.
00:09:37I arrived in town yesterday morning. I was so upset not to find you at home.
00:09:42Oh, I hope you're not in any trouble.
00:09:43Well, yes. Yes, I am. And there was no one else here I could possibly turn to.
00:09:48Please sit down. Do sit down there.
00:09:52Is anything wrong at home?
00:09:54Well, yes. Yes and no, I...
00:09:57Well, I do hope you won't misunderstand me.
00:10:00Well, I suppose you've already heard.
00:10:03Islet Lovebog is back in town, too.
00:10:05What? Islet Lovebog's come back?
00:10:07Oh, think of that, Heather.
00:10:09Yes, I heard.
00:10:10I'm so afraid he may get into trouble.
00:10:12Oh, my dear Mrs. Elstead, why should you be so worried about him?
00:10:15Oh, well, you see, he's the children's tutor.
00:10:19Oh, your children?
00:10:20Oh, no, my stepchildren, my husband's. I've none myself.
00:10:23But is Islet, well, dependable enough for such a position?
00:10:27For the past two years, his conduct has been irreproachable.
00:10:31Well, fancy that, Heather.
00:10:33Yes, I've heard.
00:10:34Irreproachable in every respect.
00:10:35Well, after his book was published...
00:10:37What do you mean, Islet Lovebog was published a new book? What, recently?
00:10:39Oh, yes, a wonderful book, a sort of outline of civilization.
00:10:44It came out a couple of weeks ago, sold marvellously, made quite a sensation.
00:10:49Oh, I suppose it was something that he wrote some time ago, during his, well, better period.
00:10:54Oh, no, no, no. He's written it all while he's been with us.
00:10:58Have you seen him in town?
00:11:00No, not yet. I had difficulty in finding his address, but this morning I finally got it.
00:11:05Doesn't it seem odd of your husband, well, to send you on such an errand?
00:11:10Why didn't he come to look after his friend?
00:11:12Oh, no. He's so busy, you see. And besides, I had some shopping to do.
00:11:16Yes, I see.
00:11:19Please, Mr. Tesman, I'm sure Islet Lovebog will come here to see you.
00:11:23You and he were such great friends. I'd be grateful if you'd keep an eye on him.
00:11:28I should be delighted to. You can rely on me.
00:11:30Oh, how kind of you. You see, my husband is so very fond of him.
00:11:37Yes, of course. Oh, I think you should write him, George. He may not want to come on his own
00:11:42accord.
00:11:43I'll write to him in this very minute. Oh, have you his address, Mrs. Elfstead?
00:11:47Oh, yes, yes. Here it is.
00:11:50Friendly.
00:11:51Write him a nice, friendly letter, and a good long one, too.
00:11:54I certainly will.
00:11:55Oh, but don't let him know that I suggested it.
00:11:57What? Oh, no. Not a word.
00:12:00There.
00:12:02You see, we've killed two birds with one stone.
00:12:05But what do you mean?
00:12:06But couldn't you see that I wanted to get rid of him so I could talk to you alone?
00:12:09But there's nothing to tell, Mrs. Tesman. Absolutely nothing.
00:12:12Oh, of course there is. I can see that.
00:12:17There is a great deal more to tell you.
00:12:21Now we'll have a nice, friendly talk. I want to know all about your life at home.
00:12:26I'd prefer not to speak about that.
00:12:28Oh, but to me, my dear, after all, we went to school together.
00:12:30Yes, but you were in a higher class than I was, and I was so terribly afraid of you then.
00:12:36Afraid of me?
00:12:37Yes. When we met on the stairs, you always used to pull my hair.
00:12:41Oh, did I really?
00:12:42And once you said you'd burn it all off.
00:12:44Oh, but I was only teasing your cause.
00:12:49There.
00:12:50I was so silly in those days, and afterwards we drifted so far apart.
00:12:56Yes, then we must drift together again. Come. Come, let us sit down over here.
00:13:01There.
00:13:05In school we used to call each other by our first names. Why don't we now?
00:13:09I think you're mistaken.
00:13:10Of course not. I remember very well.
00:13:12We were great friends, so you shall call me Hedda, and I shall call you my dear little Tora.
00:13:18My name is Thea.
00:13:21Oh, yes.
00:13:23Oh, yes, of course, I meant Thea.
00:13:26Tell me, Thea, I am a little vague about it, but when you first went to the Elfstedz, you were
00:13:31engaged as a housekeeper.
00:13:32Oh, no, no, no, I...
00:13:33Well, you see, Mrs. Tesman, I...
00:13:35Oh, no.
00:13:37Well, you see, Hedda, I was supposed to go as governess, but Mrs. Elfsted, well, the first Mrs. Elfsted, that
00:13:43is,
00:13:43she was an invalid and rarely left her room, so I had to take charge of the house as well.
00:13:48And eventually you became mistress of the house?
00:13:51Yes, I... I married her.
00:13:53Yes.
00:13:54How long ago was that?
00:13:55Five years ago.
00:13:56Oh, yes, that's right.
00:13:58And, um, Eilert Lofborg has lived near you about three years, hasn't he?
00:14:02Eilert Lofborg?
00:14:04Why, yes, yes, he has.
00:14:05I suppose you saw a good deal of him.
00:14:07Oh, yes, he came to the house every day, to give the children lessons, you see.
00:14:11And your husband is away a great deal, I suppose.
00:14:13Oh, yes, as sheriff, he often has to travel about his district.
00:14:16But, my dear, isn't he far too old for you, really?
00:14:21There must be at least twenty years between you.
00:14:24Yes, that's what makes it so difficult, and we haven't a thought in common.
00:14:29Nothing, in fact.
00:14:31Oh.
00:14:32Is he kind to you?
00:14:34I think he finds me useful.
00:14:37I don't think he cares for anyone except himself, and perhaps the children.
00:14:41A little.
00:14:43And Eilert Lofborg, dear.
00:14:45Eilert Lofborg?
00:14:46What makes you say that?
00:14:47Oh, but that's obvious.
00:14:48He sends you all this way just to look for him.
00:14:51At least that's what you told George.
00:14:55Yes, I...
00:14:57Yes, I...
00:14:58I suppose I did.
00:15:03My husband knew nothing about my coming here.
00:15:05Oh, your husband didn't know?
00:15:07He was away himself at the time.
00:15:09Oh, I couldn't stand it any longer, Hedra.
00:15:11I felt so alone, so deserted.
00:15:13Yes, you as well.
00:15:14I packed a few of my things.
00:15:16I didn't tell anyone.
00:15:16I simply left the house and took the next train to town.
00:15:22Well, how did you dare?
00:15:24What will your husband say when you go home again?
00:15:27Back to him.
00:15:28I shall never go back to him again.
00:15:31But what will people say about you, dear?
00:15:34They can say whatever they like.
00:15:35I did what I had to do.
00:15:37If I'm to live at all, I must live near Eilert Lofborg.
00:15:46How did this friendship start between you and Eilert Lofborg?
00:15:50Oh, it...
00:15:51It grew...
00:15:52It grew gradually.
00:15:53I...
00:15:54I began to have a sort of power over him.
00:15:57Power?
00:15:58Yes.
00:15:59After a while, he gave up his old habits.
00:16:01Oh, not because I asked him to, but because I suppose he realized how unhappy they made me.
00:16:06And so...
00:16:06So he dropped them.
00:16:08So you have actually reformed him, you little dear?
00:16:11Well, he says so.
00:16:14And in return, he's taught me how to live.
00:16:16He gave you lessons, too?
00:16:18Well, not lessons, exactly.
00:16:21He...
00:16:21He talked to me, explained things to me.
00:16:25And the most wonderful thing of all was when he allowed me to share in his work.
00:16:28No.
00:16:29Allowed me to help him.
00:16:30He did, did he?
00:16:31Yes, he wanted me to be a part of everything he wrote.
00:16:33Like two good comrades.
00:16:35Oh, comrades?
00:16:37Why, Hedda, that's exactly what he says.
00:16:40Oh, I...
00:16:41I ought to be so happy, and yet...
00:16:44Somehow I'm not.
00:16:45I'm...
00:16:46I'm so afraid it may not last.
00:16:49So you're not sure of him, then?
00:16:52Something stands between Islet Löfborg and me.
00:16:55The shadow of another woman.
00:16:58Who could that be?
00:16:59I don't know.
00:17:00Someone he knew a long time ago.
00:17:03Someone he never seems able to forget.
00:17:06Has he told you anything about her?
00:17:08He talked about her once, quite lately.
00:17:11What did he say?
00:17:13He said that when they parted, she threatened to shoot him.
00:17:19Oh, nonsense.
00:17:22No one we know does that sort of thing.
00:17:24That's why I think it must have been that red-haired cabaret singer who was once so friendly.
00:17:28Very nice.
00:17:28They say she went about with loaded pistons.
00:17:30But it must have been she.
00:17:31And, Hedda, they say she's here in town again.
00:17:34Oh, I'm so worried.
00:17:35I don't know what to do.
00:17:36Oh, dear.
00:17:37Don't be so worried.
00:17:40Tessman will take care of everything.
00:17:42There.
00:17:43Oh, Hedda.
00:17:45You're so understanding.
00:17:47So kind.
00:17:55Well, I hope your wife's pleased with everything.
00:17:58Oh, we just can't thank you enough, Judge Brack.
00:18:01Of course, she wants to rearrange a few things.
00:18:03And she's talking of buying a few additional trifles.
00:18:06Perhaps it might be wiser to be a bit more economical.
00:18:09Oh, well.
00:18:09You know, Hedda, Judge, she's accustomed to a certain standard of living.
00:18:13Yes.
00:18:14That's just the trouble.
00:18:15Oh, in any case, I shall soon be receiving my appointment, eh?
00:18:18Well, you see, such things sometimes hang fire.
00:18:23You've heard something further, eh?
00:18:24No, nothing rather definite.
00:18:26I've one bit of news for you.
00:18:28Your old friend Eilert Lofborg's back in town.
00:18:30Yes, I knew that already.
00:18:32I wonder what on earth he'll do.
00:18:34How he'll manage to make a living.
00:18:36Oh, isn't that just like Tessman?
00:18:38Always worrying about how people are going to make a living.
00:18:42What fun to have a look at you by daylight, Judge.
00:18:45Do you find me altered?
00:18:46Oh, a little younger, I think.
00:18:48Oh, thank you very much.
00:18:51We were talking about Eilert Lofborg, dear.
00:18:53Oh, I hear they've quite reformed him up at the Elfsteads.
00:18:56Well, I wonder what on earth he's going to do.
00:18:58I've written him a letter, by the way.
00:19:00I asked him to come and see me this evening.
00:19:01Oh, but you're coming to my stag party this evening.
00:19:04Don't forget you promised me last night on the pier.
00:19:06Have you forgotten, Tessman?
00:19:08I'm afraid I have.
00:19:09In any case, I think you can be pretty certain Lofborg won't come here.
00:19:13Oh? Why shouldn't he?
00:19:15Well, my dear Tessman, and you too, Mrs. Tessman,
00:19:19I think it's only right that I should inform you of something.
00:19:22I think you ought to be prepared to find your appointment deferred rather longer than you expected.
00:19:28Has something happened to prevent it, say?
00:19:31The nomination may depend on the result of a competition.
00:19:35Competition?
00:19:36Well, think of that, Heather.
00:19:38But who would my competitor be?
00:19:41Eilert Lofborg.
00:19:43Oh, no, that's impossible.
00:19:47That's absolutely unbelievable.
00:19:49Well, it may happen, nevertheless.
00:19:50That would be incredibly unfair to me, Judge Bragg.
00:19:54I mean, I'm a married man.
00:19:55Heather and I married on these prospects.
00:19:58Think of the money we've spent there.
00:19:59And we borrowed from Aunt Yuley, too.
00:20:02After all, they practically promised me the appointment.
00:20:04Well, don't get so excited.
00:20:05You probably get the appointment, but anyway, only you'll have to compete for it.
00:20:09I think, George, it will have quite a sporting interest.
00:20:13How can you be so indifferent about it, Heather, dear?
00:20:15Indifferent?
00:20:16I'm not in the least indifferent.
00:20:17I can hardly wait to see which of you will win.
00:20:19In any case, I thought I ought to warn you, Mrs Tesman.
00:20:22Under the circumstances, it might be better to go easy on those additional trifles you were thinking of buying.
00:20:28I don't see how that could possibly make any difference, my dear Judge.
00:20:32Really?
00:20:32Well, then I've no more to say.
00:20:36Goodbye.
00:20:39I'll call for you this evening.
00:20:41Yes, yes.
00:20:41Then I'll see you later, Judge.
00:20:43Thank you, Mrs Tesman.
00:20:45Goodbye.
00:20:47Well, you're happy.
00:20:55Oh, Heather.
00:21:00Heather.
00:21:01We should never rush into adventures, should we?
00:21:05Do you do that, George?
00:21:07Well, what else can you call it?
00:21:09To get married, settle down on mere expectations?
00:21:14Yes, you may be right.
00:21:16Well, at any rate, we have our beautiful home.
00:21:19The home we always dreamed of.
00:21:21I counted on doing a lot of entertaining.
00:21:22That was part of our agreement, I thought.
00:21:25We were to keep open house.
00:21:26I was looking forward to it, too, Heather, dear.
00:21:28To see you, a brilliant hostess, surrounded with distinguished guests.
00:21:32But, no, we'll just have to make do for the time being, dear.
00:21:36After all, we can be happy in each other.
00:21:38And we can ask Aunt you, Liam, every now and day.
00:21:41But I did want it to be so different, Heather.
00:21:43Oh, so very different.
00:21:44I suppose this means I have to do without a butler.
00:21:46Oh, I'm afraid a butler's quite out of the question, then.
00:21:49Yes.
00:21:50And you promised me a riding horse.
00:21:52Do you remember?
00:21:52That's out of the question, too, I suppose.
00:21:54I'm afraid so, Heather, dear.
00:21:56Oh, money, always money.
00:21:58This, this genteel poverty that makes life so hideous,
00:22:02so utterly loneliness.
00:22:06At least I have one thing to amuse myself with.
00:22:09Thank heavens for that.
00:22:11What is it, Heather?
00:22:12My pistols, George.
00:22:15General Garbler's pistols.
00:22:17Oh, no, please, Heather, don't play with those dangerous things.
00:22:20Please.
00:22:20For my sake, Heather.
00:22:27Welcome back, George.
00:22:29Now I'm going to shoot you.
00:22:30Don't, don't, don't aim at me like that.
00:22:32That's what you get for sneaking in the back way.
00:22:35Have you gone completely mad?
00:22:37Good heavens, I didn't hit you by any way.
00:22:40I wish you'd stop all this nonsense.
00:22:42Oh, come along, George.
00:22:44I'll let you pass.
00:22:45Come along.
00:22:47Come along.
00:22:48Ah.
00:22:50Still playing about with pistols.
00:22:53What, what are you shooting at?
00:22:55Just killing time, shooting up into the...
00:22:58Allow me.
00:23:01Ah.
00:23:03I know this pistol.
00:23:04I've seen it before.
00:23:05Where's the case for it?
00:23:07Ah.
00:23:09Ah.
00:23:10That game's over for today.
00:23:14In good health.
00:23:16What am I to do with myself all day long?
00:23:19What, isn't Tasman at home?
00:23:21No, he just rushed off to his aunts directly after lunch.
00:23:25He didn't expect you so early.
00:23:26Fancy my not thinking of that.
00:23:28How stupid of me.
00:23:30Why stupid?
00:23:31Because I should have come even earlier.
00:23:34Then you would have found no one to receive you,
00:23:36for I've been dressing ever since lunch.
00:23:38But isn't there a little crack in the door
00:23:40through which one might convert?
00:23:43You forgot to provide one, Judge.
00:23:46Again stupid of me.
00:23:49We must just sit here and wait until Tasman comes.
00:23:52We may not be here for quite some time.
00:23:55Never mind.
00:23:56I shan't be impatient.
00:24:00Well.
00:24:02Well.
00:24:03Well.
00:24:04I ask first.
00:24:06Let's have a really pleasant little talk, shall we?
00:24:10Mrs. Hedda.
00:24:15It seems ages since our last little talk, doesn't it, Judge?
00:24:19Every single day I wished you were home again.
00:24:23I wish that too.
00:24:24You have?
00:24:26Well then, Mrs. Hedda.
00:24:27But I thought you were having such a fine time on your honeymoon.
00:24:31I can't tell you, Judge, how bored I've been.
00:24:34How would you like to spend six months without meeting a soul you could really talk to?
00:24:40I shouldn't like it at all.
00:24:42But the most unendurable thing of all was?
00:24:45What?
00:24:47To be everlastingly with one and the same person.
00:24:51Yes, yes.
00:24:52Morning, noon, and night.
00:24:55I said everlasting.
00:24:56But surely it's not so unbearable with someone you love?
00:25:01Don't use that impulsive word.
00:25:03What's that, Mrs. Hedda?
00:25:05Just you try it.
00:25:07Nothing but his special subject.
00:25:11Medieval history.
00:25:13Morning, noon, and night.
00:25:15Everlastingly.
00:25:16But if that case, how did it happen that...
00:25:20That I married Tessman, you mean.
00:25:23Is there anything so very odd in that?
00:25:26I had literally danced myself tired and I wasn't getting any younger.
00:25:32Oh, I don't want to think about it.
00:25:35After all, one has to admit that George Tessman is a thoroughly worthy man.
00:25:40A worthy, reliable man.
00:25:43There's no question of that.
00:25:44And I don't see anything especially funny about him, do you?
00:25:48Funny? No.
00:25:49Not really, no.
00:25:50I wouldn't say that.
00:25:51Well, he is a distinguished scholar.
00:25:54And since he was so bent on supporting me, I didn't see why I shouldn't accept his offer.
00:25:59Well, if you look at it from that point of view...
00:26:01That was more than some of my other admirers were prepared to do, my dear George.
00:26:05Oh, well, of course I can't answer for the others.
00:26:08I have a great respect for the state of matrimony.
00:26:11But I must admit, as an individual...
00:26:14I've never had any hopes as far as you're concerned.
00:26:16All I ask of life is to know a few people intimately, nice people whom I can help and advise,
00:26:24and in whose houses I can come and go as a trusted friend.
00:26:31Of the master of the house?
00:26:34Well, of the mistress, preferably.
00:26:38But of the master, too, of course, I find such a triangular friendship, if I could call it so, a
00:26:45great convenience to all concerned.
00:26:52I must admit, heaven knows a third person would have been welcome on our journey.
00:26:58Oh, those infernal tête-à-tête.
00:27:01Well, chill up. You're waiting to us over now.
00:27:04No, not really. We've only stopped at the station on the line.
00:27:08Then the thing to do, Mrs. Hedda, is to jump out and stretch a bit.
00:27:14I never jump out.
00:27:15Really? Why not?
00:27:17There's always someone there to...
00:27:20Stare at your legs.
00:27:23Precisely.
00:27:26I don't like that sort of thing.
00:27:28I'd rather keep my seat and continue the tête-à-tête.
00:27:31But if a third person were to jump in and join the couple, a trusted, understanding friend...
00:27:40Gay and entertaining in a variety of ways.
00:27:42And not a bit of a medieval specialist.
00:27:48That certainly would be a great relief.
00:27:52Hedda!
00:27:53Yes, George?
00:27:55The triangle is completed.
00:27:58Then on goes the train.
00:28:01I'm positively sweating, dear.
00:28:04Oh, you're here already, Judge.
00:28:06Oh, George, what are all those books?
00:28:09They're just some new books that touch on my special subject.
00:28:12I simply had to have them.
00:28:13Yes, your special subject.
00:28:15On a special subject, Mrs. Tesman?
00:28:18Well, one must keep up with the latest publications.
00:28:20Yes, I suppose one does.
00:28:21Oh, look, I've got Eilert Lofborg's new book.
00:28:24Would you care to see it, dear?
00:28:27Perhaps later.
00:28:27Well, I'd been glancing at it on my way home.
00:28:30What do you think of it?
00:28:31As a specialist, I mean.
00:28:32Well, do you know, he handles this vast subject with, well, the greatest restraint.
00:28:37It's quite remarkable.
00:28:38I've never known him right like that before.
00:28:41Well, I'll just take all these into the library.
00:28:44I want to cut a few pages.
00:28:46Well, then, I suppose I'd better change for tonight.
00:28:48There's no hurry.
00:28:49Ah.
00:28:50Oh, it's Heather.
00:28:52Hmm?
00:28:52Aunt Yulie is afraid she can't come in this evening.
00:28:55Oh, is she still annoyed about the hat?
00:28:58No, it's not that.
00:28:59It wouldn't be a bit like her, but Aunt Rena is very ill.
00:29:02She always is.
00:29:04Yes, but tonight she's even worse, and Aunt Yulie feels that she ought to stay with her.
00:29:08I shall try and bear it.
00:29:10Oh, those eternal aunts.
00:29:13Did you say something, dear?
00:29:14Nothing.
00:29:18What, what was that about her hat?
00:29:24This morning, Miss Tessman had taken her hat off.
00:29:28And left it on the chair.
00:29:31And I pretended to think it was the service.
00:29:34Why, Mrs. Hedda, how could you do such a thing to that nice old lady?
00:29:42Well, I don't know.
00:29:43I, I sometimes get impulses like that, and I, I just can't control them.
00:29:48I, oh, I can't explain it even to myself.
00:29:51You're not really happy, are you?
00:29:54I don't see why I should be happy.
00:29:56Well, here you are in the house you've always longed to live in.
00:30:01Do you believe in that fairy tale?
00:30:03Oh, wasn't it true, babe?
00:30:06Last summer, I made use of Tessman to see me home from parties, and one evening we happened to pass
00:30:12by this house.
00:30:13Tessman, poor thing, was turning and twisting.
00:30:15He couldn't think of a thing to say.
00:30:18Oh, I, I really felt sorry for the poor, wretched scholar.
00:30:21Sorry?
00:30:22You?
00:30:24Yes, I did, Red.
00:30:26So just to make conversation, to help him out a bit, I was foolish enough to say,
00:30:29what a charming house I thought this was, and how I would love to live in it.
00:30:35And that make-believe, that resulted in my engagement, my wedding, my wedding trip, and all the rest of it.
00:30:45Well, as they say, the way you make your bed, that's the way you lie in it.
00:30:49Well, since you've made it so attractive and comfortable for you...
00:30:52For me, it smells of lavender and dried rose leaves.
00:30:55What one might call the Aunt Julie atmosphere.
00:31:00Oh, my dear Judge, I can't tell you how I shall bore myself here.
00:31:05I don't think you've ever really been stirred by anything in life.
00:31:09But I expect it will come.
00:31:12I suppose you should suddenly find yourself faced with what one might call a grave responsibility.
00:31:19A new responsibility, Mrs. Hedda.
00:31:23Be quiet. Nothing of the sort will happen to me.
00:31:25We'll talk of this again a year from now, at the very later.
00:31:28That sort of thing doesn't appeal to me.
00:31:30No responsibilities for me. I... I am not fitted for...
00:31:33Well, what makes you think you're less fitted than...
00:31:35But why did I tell you? Sometimes I think there's only one thing in life that I'm really fitted for.
00:31:39What's that?
00:31:41Boring myself to death!
00:31:42Boring myself to death!
00:31:54Now you know.
00:32:13I let love, Gorg, at last we meet again.
00:32:17Oh, come, give me your clothing.
00:32:20Thanks for your letter, George.
00:32:21Oh, no.
00:32:24May I shake hands with you, too, Mrs. Tesman?
00:32:28Welcome, Mr. Loveboy.
00:32:30I don't know if you two gentlemen...
00:32:32Judge Brack, I believe.
00:32:33I had that pleasure some years ago.
00:32:35I've just bought your new book, Islet.
00:32:37I haven't had time to read it yet.
00:32:38I wouldn't bother to if I were you.
00:32:40It's pretty thin stuff.
00:32:41It's been enormously praised, I hear.
00:32:43That was exactly what I intended,
00:32:45so I put nothing in it that anyone could take exception to.
00:32:48But when this one appears, George Tesman, you must read it.
00:32:50This is the real book.
00:32:51Oh, what's it about?
00:32:53It's the sequel.
00:32:54Sequel?
00:32:55The sequel of what?
00:32:56Oh, the other book.
00:32:57What, of the new one?
00:32:58Of course.
00:32:59Goodness me, that goes down to the present day.
00:33:01Yes, but this one deals with the future.
00:33:04The future?
00:33:05Well, none of us knows anything about the future.
00:33:08There's a thing or two to be said about it, just to say.
00:33:12Oh, how remarkable, isn't I?
00:33:14Well, I should never have thought of writing about a thing like that.
00:33:16No, you wouldn't.
00:33:17I brought it along with me, George,
00:33:18because I thought I might read you some of it this evening.
00:33:21Oh, that's awfully kind of you, Eilert,
00:33:22but I'm afraid this evening...
00:33:23Well, as a matter of fact, Mr. Leuberg,
00:33:25I'm giving a little party this evening
00:33:27to celebrate Tesman's return.
00:33:28Oh, well, in that case, I'm sorry.
00:33:30Thank you very much.
00:33:31But I'd be delighted if you joined us.
00:33:32No, I mustn't keep you, thank you.
00:33:33No, but you can bring your manuscript
00:33:35and read it to Tesman in my house.
00:33:36I'll give you a room all to yourself.
00:33:38Oh, think of that, Eilert.
00:33:39George, dear, if Mr. Leuberg says he doesn't want to,
00:33:42I'm sure Mr. Leuberg would much prefer to stay here
00:33:44and have supper with me.
00:33:46With you, Mrs. Tesman?
00:33:48Mrs. Elfsted will be here, too.
00:33:50Oh, yes, I saw her for a moment today.
00:33:53Oh, did you?
00:33:53Well, she's spending the evening here.
00:33:55So, you see, you're almost obliged to stay, Mr. Leuberg,
00:33:58otherwise Mrs. Elfsted will have no one to see her home.
00:34:00In that case, I will stay, Mrs. Tesman.
00:34:02Good, I'll tell the sir.
00:34:03Good.
00:34:05No, come on, then.
00:34:06They told me at the bookstore
00:34:08that you're preparing a series of lectures.
00:34:10Mrs. I hope you've no objection.
00:34:12Well, I can't expect you out of consideration from me to...
00:34:15Well, but, of course, I shall wait until you receive your appointment.
00:34:17What?
00:34:18You mean you're not going to compete with me?
00:34:19No, no, I simply want people to realize that I could have defeated you.
00:34:23Oh, Heather, think of that.
00:34:25Eilert isn't going to stand in our way.
00:34:27In our way?
00:34:28Please keep me out of it.
00:34:30And now, gentlemen, how would you like a glass of cold Eric Punch before you go?
00:34:35That's not a bad idea.
00:34:36Oh, it's a capital idea, especially now that a heavy weight has been taken off my mind.
00:34:40Won't you join them, Mr. Lerboyd?
00:34:41No, thank you.
00:34:42Nothing for me.
00:34:43But surely cold Punch isn't poison?
00:34:46Perhaps not for everyone.
00:34:48Well, then you go in, and I will sit here and keep Mr. Lerboyd coming.
00:34:51Yes, do that, Heather dear.
00:34:52Do that.
00:34:53Go.
00:34:57Perhaps you'd like to look at some photographs, Mr. Lerboyd.
00:35:00You see, Tessman and I did a lot of sightseeing in the Alps, and I'd like to show you.
00:35:09Look at that group of mountains.
00:35:11That's the Ortler group.
00:35:12Oh, yes.
00:35:13Tessman has written here underneath.
00:35:14The Ortler group near Meron.
00:35:16Heather Gabler.
00:35:19Shhh.
00:35:20Heather Gabler.
00:35:23That was my name in the old days, when you and I knew each other.
00:35:28Then I must never say Heather Gabler again.
00:35:30No.
00:35:32Heather Gabler married to George Tessman.
00:35:35How could you throw yourself away like that?
00:35:37I won't have you say such things.
00:35:39Heather dear.
00:35:39Look at this.
00:35:40This is the view from the Ampetzo Valley.
00:35:43Look at those peaks.
00:35:44George dear, what is the name of these curious peaks?
00:35:47Oh, those are the Dolomites.
00:35:49Oh, the Dolomites, Mr. Lerboyd.
00:35:51Heather dear, are you sure you wouldn't like me to bring you a glass of punch, eh?
00:35:54Yes, I think I'll have some.
00:35:54And a few biscuits, hmm?
00:35:56Yes, yes.
00:35:57A cigarette?
00:35:58No.
00:36:02How could you do it, Heather?
00:36:04Answer me.
00:36:07If you go on calling me Heather, I won't talk to you.
00:36:11Not even if we're alone?
00:36:13You may think it, but you mustn't say it.
00:36:15Because you love George Tessman.
00:36:20How funny you are.
00:36:21It's not love, then.
00:36:24Heather.
00:36:25Shh.
00:36:30All the same.
00:36:32No unfaithfulness.
00:36:34Here we are.
00:36:35Oh, you have poor two glasses.
00:36:38It's such fun to wait on.
00:36:39You have two glasses.
00:36:40Mr. Lerboyd said he didn't want anything.
00:36:42Well, Mrs. Elfsted will be here any minute now.
00:36:44Oh, yes, Mrs. Elfsted.
00:36:45Why, had you forgotten about her, eh?
00:36:47Yes, we were so engrossed in these photographs.
00:36:49Do you remember that little village?
00:36:50Hmm?
00:36:51Oh, well, that's the one at the foot of the Brenner Pass.
00:36:53Yes, don't you remember?
00:36:54We stayed a night there.
00:36:55Yes, and ran into that gay company of tourists.
00:36:59Yes.
00:37:00It's a pity you weren't there with us, Eyelet, eh?
00:37:08You didn't love me at all.
00:37:11No.
00:37:12Not at all.
00:37:14I wonder.
00:37:16Sometimes I think, to me, it seems we were just two good intimate friends who could tell
00:37:22each other.
00:37:23Intimate things.
00:37:24At least you did.
00:37:26It was you who teased me into it, Heather.
00:37:29Do you remember all those things?
00:37:32All those wild things you made me confess to you?
00:37:34Every drunken spree, every indecent, defiling act I ever committed, or ever thought of committing,
00:37:43you made me boast of.
00:37:45And then, deviously, you'd probe deeper, always deeper.
00:37:51How could you bring yourself to ask the things you did?
00:37:55But in a devious way, if you please.
00:37:58Shamelessly.
00:37:58How could you bring yourself to answer them?
00:38:00I thought they were asked out of love.
00:38:02I thought you were trying to purge me, to help me.
00:38:07No.
00:38:08It was not love.
00:38:09Then why?
00:38:12Is it not understandable that a young girl might be tempted to investigate a world?
00:38:18She's supposed to know nothing about a man's world, especially if she can do it in secret
00:38:24and with no risk.
00:38:27You were my guide, my teacher, burning and unashamed, like a young god with vine leaves
00:38:37in your hair.
00:38:39It was beautiful.
00:38:40And then why did it end?
00:38:42You were to blame for that.
00:38:43You broke with me.
00:38:44You wanted to spoil our intimacy.
00:38:46You wanted to drag it down to reality.
00:38:50You talk of my boldness, my shamelessness.
00:38:53Why did you try to abuse them?
00:38:55So you threatened to shoot me.
00:38:59I was frightened.
00:39:00I realized the danger.
00:39:01But why didn't you go through with it?
00:39:04Because I'm that afraid of scandal.
00:39:06Yes, Hedda.
00:39:08You're a coward at heart.
00:39:13Lucky for you, isn't it?
00:39:15You've got ample consolation up at the upstairs.
00:39:18I know that Thea has confided in you.
00:39:22Had you told Thea about us?
00:39:23Well, not a word, no, no.
00:39:24She's too stupid to understand.
00:39:27Stupid.
00:39:28In certain things, she's naive.
00:39:30And I, a coward.
00:39:36Now I'll confess something to you.
00:39:38Well?
00:39:40My not daring to shoot you.
00:39:42Yes.
00:39:45Was not my greatest cowardice that night.
00:39:48Oh, Hedda.
00:39:50Hedda, you and I.
00:39:52That was your craving for life, not just unhealthy curiosity.
00:39:55You needed to be fulfilled.
00:39:58You wanted someone that was loved.
00:40:00Shh.
00:40:01Be careful.
00:40:01I didn't say that.
00:40:02Mrs. Elfstein.
00:40:04Oh, Thea.
00:40:05Yes.
00:40:06I thought you'd never come.
00:40:08Shouldn't I go and say good evening to your husband?
00:40:09No.
00:40:10You needn't bother about them.
00:40:11They'll soon be off.
00:40:12Are they going out?
00:40:13Yes.
00:40:13They're a wild part of having jolly times.
00:40:15You're not going, are you?
00:40:16No, Mr. Loeboi will stay here with us.
00:40:18Oh.
00:40:19How nice it is to be here.
00:40:21Thea.
00:40:22No, no, no, Thea.
00:40:23Now, you be a good girl and sit over there.
00:40:25Next to me, and I will sit between you, just as you like.
00:40:32Is she lovely to look at?
00:40:35Only to look at?
00:40:36Hmm.
00:40:37And then we have such absolute faith in each other, we can speak with perfect frankness.
00:40:43But not in a devious way, Mr. Loeboi.
00:40:45You know, he actually says I've inspired him in his work.
00:40:49Hmm.
00:40:49Does he really?
00:40:50And then she has such courage, Mrs. Tess.
00:40:53Oh, good heavens!
00:40:54Courage!
00:40:55If one only had that.
00:40:56Then?
00:40:57Then life might perhaps be endurable after all.
00:41:00Oh, dear, my dear, you must have a glass of cold punch.
00:41:03Oh, no, thank you.
00:41:04I never take anything like that.
00:41:05Then how about you, Mr. Loeboi?
00:41:06No, he doesn't either.
00:41:10But if I want you to?
00:41:11Makes no difference.
00:41:13Oh, poor me.
00:41:15Have I no power over you at all, then?
00:41:17Not in that respect.
00:41:20But seriously, I think you ought to take it for your own sake.
00:41:24What do you mean?
00:41:25Well, people might begin to suspect that you're not quite sure, not quite confident in yourself.
00:41:29Don't, Heather.
00:41:30People may suspect whatever they like.
00:41:31Yes, let them.
00:41:33You should have seen Judge Brack's contemptuous smile when you didn't dare to join them in there.
00:41:38Didn't dare?
00:41:40That's what Judge Brack thought.
00:41:42Didn't dare?
00:41:43I simply prefer to stay here with you.
00:41:46You are not going, then?
00:41:48No, I'm going to stay here and talk with you and Taya.
00:41:51Yes, Heather.
00:41:52Of course he is.
00:41:53There.
00:41:53You see?
00:41:55Firm as a rock.
00:41:56Faithful to all good principles now and forever.
00:41:59That's how a man should be, especially a converted sinner.
00:42:03You see there?
00:42:04What did I tell you, Taya, when you came running here this morning?
00:42:07Didn't I tell you not to be so upset?
00:42:09Oh, Heather.
00:42:10Please, Heather.
00:42:10You see there, you have not the slightest reason to be so anxious and worried.
00:42:14What's all this about?
00:42:15But now we can all three enjoy ourselves.
00:42:17You see how unfair you've been to doubt him.
00:42:21God, Heather, what are you doing?
00:42:25So you were worried and anxious on my account?
00:42:28Oh, listen to me, Islet.
00:42:29Is that all the faith you have in me?
00:42:30Oh, listen to me, Islet.
00:42:31It was just that you were alone in the city with no one...
00:42:38Your health, Taya.
00:42:42Oh, Heather, how could you do this?
00:42:44I do it. How you may?
00:42:45And yours too, Mrs. Desmond.
00:42:47Thank you for your frankness.
00:42:48No more for the moment.
00:42:50You're going to the party, remember?
00:42:53Did your husband know you came after me?
00:42:55Hmm?
00:42:56It was arranged between you, wasn't it?
00:42:57That you should come to town and keep an eye on me?
00:43:01Most likely the old man suggested it himself.
00:43:04But suppose he need my help at the office or missed my presence at the card table?
00:43:08Hmm?
00:43:08Hmm?
00:43:09Let's drink to the old sheriff, too.
00:43:12No more now.
00:43:13You're going to read your manuscript to George.
00:43:16Amen.
00:43:21I'm behaving like a fool, Taya.
00:43:22I'm sorry.
00:43:23It's all right now.
00:43:24All right.
00:43:26I'll prove it to you.
00:43:28I'll prove it to everyone that I'm all right again.
00:43:32I am.
00:43:33I'm back on my feet.
00:43:36Well, it's time to go, Mrs. Desmond, Mrs. Elfstein.
00:43:40I suppose it is.
00:43:41Since you were kind enough to invite me, Judge Brack, I have decided to join you.
00:43:44I'm delighted.
00:43:46No, no, no.
00:43:46I'll call for you, Taya, around 10 o'clock.
00:43:50Is that all right, Mrs. Desmond?
00:43:52That'll be splendid.
00:43:53I'll wait for you here, Mr. Lopo.
00:43:55Well, gentlemen, shall we start?
00:43:57I hope we're going to have a jolly good time, as a certain lovely lady puts it.
00:44:02If only the lovely lady could be there, unseen.
00:44:05Why, unseen?
00:44:07So as to share a little in your underbridled money.
00:44:11I shouldn't advise the lovely lady to try.
00:44:15You're a nice one, Emma.
00:44:17Think of that.
00:44:18Goodbye, ladies.
00:44:19All right, gentlemen.
00:44:20Yes, Mr. Lopo.
00:44:22You won't expect me back so early, dear.
00:44:24No, you can stay as long as you wish, George.
00:44:31Oh, Hedda, where is all this going to end?
00:44:37It's all right playing cards and gambling,
00:44:40and it's all right drinking beer and rum.
00:44:42Oh, it's all right playing cards and gambling,
00:44:45and it's all right drinking beer and rum.
00:44:47But keeping company...
00:44:49I won't waste any words on that riddle rear guard of puny, narrow-chested, self-important men.
00:44:56The stream of life has already left them far behind.
00:44:59I'm thinking of the few.
00:45:01The rare spirits amongst us who have had the vision to recognize the truth in new ideas, new ways of
00:45:07thought,
00:45:07and have made those ways their own.
00:45:11Oh.
00:45:15Where was I, Ted?
00:45:17With those rare spirits that have the vision to face new-born truths.
00:45:22Well, it's magnificent, Emma.
00:45:23It's simply magnificent.
00:45:25New-born truths, yes.
00:45:26Too new and too daring to be accepted by the so-called sacred majority.
00:45:31Ah.
00:45:39Soon he'll be here, with vine leaves in his hair, flushed and fearless.
00:45:47He'll believe in himself again, and he'll be a free man forever and ever.
00:45:52Pray God you may be right.
00:45:54I am right.
00:45:55Doubt him as much as you want.
00:45:56I believe in him.
00:45:57Why have you done this, Hedda?
00:45:58For once in my life, I want the power to shape the human destiny.
00:46:03You have your husband.
00:46:04I don't.
00:46:05Do you think he's worth bothering about, if only knew how cheated I have become?
00:46:13Never to have tasted life.
00:46:17Really tasted it, and then see it wasted on a silly schoolgirl.
00:46:22I think I shall have to burn your hair off me!
00:46:25Oh, let me go!
00:46:28I'm afraid of you.
00:46:29I want to go home alone now at once.
00:46:31Oh, you'll do nothing on the sort, you silly little thing.
00:46:35You'll have a nice cup of coffee.
00:46:37And then...
00:46:39I let love pour it, you will be here.
00:46:42With vine leaves.
00:46:51If this...
00:46:52No, wait, I haven't finished.
00:46:55Question.
00:46:56If this book is the great work that my friend Tesman says it is, and I say it is, how
00:47:02could I have written it?
00:47:04Question.
00:47:05How can you stand up?
00:47:07Answer.
00:47:08Because I was inspired.
00:47:10Inspired by the most beautiful, delicate understanding.
00:47:15Beautiful, delicate creature in the universe.
00:47:18It was she alone.
00:47:19And don't ask me her name.
00:47:21What was her name?
00:47:23Even in the vaulted halls of this ancient college.
00:47:27Gracious Chancellor.
00:47:29Hear, hear.
00:47:29To the mysterious muse of Islet Lovebird.
00:47:34I really think we ought to get him home.
00:47:36You know, he's quite drunk.
00:47:37I'll go and get my...
00:47:38He's even here.
00:47:43I know what he needs.
00:47:44Breakfast.
00:47:45And I know just the place for it.
00:47:47Chez Mademoiselle Diane.
00:47:57Hurry up, Tesman!
00:48:27Why didn't you give it back to him at once?
00:48:29I didn't dare trust him with it in the estate he was in.
00:48:32Did you tell any of the others that you found it?
00:48:34Of course not. I didn't want them to know.
00:48:36Why not?
00:48:37For Islet's sake, of course.
00:48:38Shh!
00:48:39You'll wake Mrs. Elfstein.
00:48:41Tell me, George.
00:48:43Did he have vine leaves in his hair?
00:48:47Vine leaves?
00:48:48No, I didn't see any vine leaves.
00:48:51Oh, Heather, you can't conceive what a book this is going to be.
00:48:56You know, I think it's going to be one of the most important books ever written.
00:48:59Think of that, Heather.
00:49:02And, you know, I must confess something.
00:49:03When he'd finished reading it, I had the most awful feeling, terrible feeling.
00:49:09Terrible feeling?
00:49:11Yes.
00:49:12I felt quite jealous of Islet for being able to write such a book.
00:49:17Think of that, eh?
00:49:20I am thinking.
00:49:22Oh, I'm absolutely frozen.
00:49:24No, it really is appalling that with all his great gifts he should be so irresponsible.
00:49:29Just think what he'll feel like when he wakes up and he can't find his manuscript.
00:49:34There's no other copy. He told me so himself.
00:49:38Tell me, George, would it be quite impossible to write such a book again?
00:49:42Oh, I should think so. You see, there's the inspiration.
00:49:47Yes, the inspiration. I suppose it depends on that.
00:49:50Oh, by the way, here's a letter for you. It came by messenger from Aunt Julie a little while ago.
00:49:54Oh, really?
00:49:58Oh, Heather, she says that Aunt Lena is dying.
00:50:03I'll really have to hurry if I'm going to see her again.
00:50:07Heather, dear, if only you could bring yourself to come with me, eh?
00:50:11I'll have nothing to do with sickness and death. I loathe anything ugly.
00:50:15Oh, very well, then.
00:50:18My hat, my overcoat.
00:50:20Oh, the manuscript.
00:50:22I'll take care of it until you come back.
00:50:23Oh, pray heaven I won't be too late.
00:50:40Forgive my entering this way.
00:50:42I've hardly dressed for a formal call. I've been up all night.
00:50:46Haven't even changed my clothes.
00:50:48So it was more than usually jolly last night.
00:50:52What has Tesman told you of last night's adventures?
00:50:56Nothing much. He just went off to see his aunt.
00:50:58Did they say nothing about Islet Love, Borg?
00:51:01Only that he'd been escorted home.
00:51:04Oh, George Tesman really is a naive creature.
00:51:09And what happened last night?
00:51:11If it's not too unmentionable?
00:51:13Oh, it's by no means unmentionable.
00:51:15To make a long story short, he turned up at Mademoiselle Diane.
00:51:21Mademoiselle Diane? Isn't that that red-haired woman?
00:51:24A sort of a singer?
00:51:26Yes, in her leisure moments.
00:51:28In the days of his glory, Love, Borg was one of her most ardent visitors.
00:51:33What happened, Judge?
00:51:34Oh, it seems Mademoiselle Diane proceeded to tear out his hair.
00:51:38He'd accused her of robbing him a valuable notebook or something.
00:51:42He raised a terrific row, which ended in a general free-for-all, in which the women, as well as
00:51:47the men, took part.
00:51:49How do you know all this?
00:51:50From the police. They were called in to the fray.
00:51:57Then he had no vine leaves in his hair, after all.
00:52:00Vine leaves, Mrs. Heather?
00:52:03Tell me, why are you so interested in spying on Love, Borg?
00:52:07I felt it my duty, as a friend of the family, to give you and Tessman the full account of
00:52:13his nocturnal exploits.
00:52:16For what reason?
00:52:18From now on, every respectable house will be closed to Love, Borg.
00:52:24You mean mine ought to be too.
00:52:26I admit, it would be painful for me if he should be welcome here.
00:52:31If this superfluous person should force his way into the...
00:52:36Triangle.
00:52:37Precisely.
00:52:39Which simply means that I should find myself homeless.
00:52:44I see.
00:52:45You want to be cock of the walk, Judge.
00:52:49That is your aim.
00:52:51And I'll fight with every weapon at my command.
00:52:56I wonder if you are not a rather dangerous person.
00:52:59Do you think so, Mrs. Heather?
00:53:02Yes.
00:53:03I'm beginning to think so, and I'm very glad you have no hold over me.
00:53:07Well, perhaps you're right, for if I had, who knows what I might think of?
00:53:11Oh, come on now, come, Judge. It almost sounds like a threat.
00:53:13Oh, by no means, for the triangle should be based on mutual understanding, if possible.
00:53:21There I entirely agree with you.
00:53:24Well, having said what I have to say, goodbye, Mrs. Heather.
00:53:30Huh?
00:53:37So you are going through the garden?
00:53:39Yes, it's a shortcut for me.
00:53:41And then it's the back door, isn't it?
00:53:43Very true. I have no objection to back doors. They can be intriguing at times.
00:53:47When there's shooting going on, you mean?
00:53:50People don't shoot their pet rooster.
00:53:53And certainly not the cock of the walk, Judge.
00:53:58Goodbye.
00:54:10You can't come in. You can't come in at this time.
00:54:14I haven't seen her right away.
00:54:14Better.
00:54:16It's rather late to call for Tia, Mr. Leomar.
00:54:18Rather early to call on you, forgive me.
00:54:20How do you know that she's still here?
00:54:22They told me she hadn't been back to her lodgings.
00:54:23Oh, Violet, at last.
00:54:26Yes, I'm too late.
00:54:28What's too late?
00:54:29Everything's too late.
00:54:31It's all up with me.
00:54:32Oh, you mustn't say that.
00:54:33You'll say the same when you hear.
00:54:35But I don't want to hear anything.
00:54:36You have to rather talk to her alone.
00:54:37No, no, please, stay.
00:54:38But I don't want to hear anything, I tell you.
00:54:40I have no intention of discussing what went on last night.
00:54:45It's just that I want you to know that we must not see each other again.
00:54:52But why?
00:54:53I no longer have any need for you, Tia.
00:54:56How can you say that?
00:54:58I shall never work again.
00:55:00Then what have I to live for?
00:55:02Oh, look, Tia, you've got to try and live as if you'd never known me.
00:55:05But you know I can't do that.
00:55:07You have to try, Tia.
00:55:08You don't mean it.
00:55:09Go home, Tia. Forget me.
00:55:12I won't let you drive me away.
00:55:14I want to be with you when the book is published.
00:55:17The book will not be published.
00:55:22The book, what have you done with the manuscript?
00:55:27Where is it?
00:55:28I've torn it into a thousand pieces.
00:55:30Oh, no.
00:55:32But that's not...
00:55:33Not true, you think?
00:55:35Of course, it must be if you say so.
00:55:37I've torn my life to pieces!
00:55:39Why shouldn't I tear up my work as well?
00:55:43It's as though you killed a little child.
00:55:46It's as if I'd murdered my own child.
00:55:49It was my child, too.
00:55:53Oh, the child.
00:56:02Now go now, Heather.
00:56:05What are you going to do?
00:56:07I don't know.
00:56:14I don't know.
00:56:16Now, Lepa.
00:56:18Tell me the truth.
00:56:23First, give me your word that Tia will never know.
00:56:26No.
00:56:27I give you my word.
00:56:31One can do worse things to a child than kill it.
00:56:35I couldn't tell Tia that I dragged it around with me all night to all sorts of obscene and loathsome
00:56:40places, and I...
00:56:42I lost our child! I lost him!
00:56:45Stop calling it a child! It was only a book!
00:56:49Tia's soul was in that book.
00:56:52Yes.
00:56:55Yes, so I understand.
00:56:59What are you going to do with your life now?
00:57:02Nothing. It's over.
00:57:06Will you make an end of it?
00:57:08The sooner the better.
00:57:12If you do, let it be beautiful.
00:57:17Beautiful.
00:57:20Shall I put vine leaves in my hair, as you wanted me to in the old days?
00:57:25No, I don't believe in vine leaves anymore, but for once, let it be beautiful.
00:57:31Wait a minute, I'll give you something of mine to take with you.
00:57:34As a token.
00:57:42Do you remember this?
00:57:46You should have done it then.
00:57:49Take it. Use it now.
00:57:58Thanks.
00:58:04Let it be beautiful.
00:58:06Let it be beautiful.
00:58:07I love love, boy.
00:58:09Promise me that.
00:58:14Goodbye.
00:58:16Hey to goblins.
00:58:31Good to see you later.
00:58:40Goodbye.
00:58:41There are many
00:59:21I'm burning your child here.
00:59:24You're as an eyelid love person, Jack.
00:59:30You with your curly hair.
00:59:35I'm burning it.
00:59:37I'm burning your child.
00:59:39I'm burning it.
00:59:40I'm burning it.
00:59:49How strange life is.
00:59:51At home we shall be sewing a funeral shroud.
00:59:54And soon I expect there will be sewing here too.
00:59:58But of a different nature, thank heavens.
01:00:02I'm just going, my dear boy.
01:00:04I'll have to come over and see you in the morning, auntie.
01:00:06My brain's in such a whirl, I don't know what I'm doing.
01:00:08You mustn't take it so much to heart, George.
01:00:11We must be grateful that dear Rina has found rest at last.
01:00:15I'm afraid you'll be very lonely now, Miss Tesman.
01:00:18I shall be at first, but I shan't let Rina's room stay empty for long.
01:00:22There's always some poor invalid that has to be looked after.
01:00:26Would you take such a burden on yourself again?
01:00:29Burden?
01:00:30Oh, bless you, it's no burden.
01:00:33But it's different with a stranger.
01:00:35I must have someone to live for.
01:00:37And it's easier to make friends with someone who is sick.
01:00:41And who knows, someday there may be something in this house for an old aunt to take care of.
01:00:47Please don't trouble with us.
01:00:49Everything will be for the best.
01:00:50Eh?
01:00:50I must get back to poor Rina.
01:00:52Yes, dear.
01:00:53No, don't see me out, dear.
01:00:54I'm perfectly all right.
01:00:58Oh.
01:00:59Aunt Rina's death seems to affect you more than it does Aunt Julie.
01:01:02It's not only that.
01:01:03I'm upset about Isla, too.
01:01:05Have you heard anything new?
01:01:06No.
01:01:07No, I called on him this afternoon to tell him that the manuscript was safe, but he wasn't at home.
01:01:12Later I met Mrs. Elfsted, and she said that he'd been here early this morning.
01:01:16Yes.
01:01:16And he told her that he'd torn his manuscript to pieces.
01:01:20Yes, that's what he said.
01:01:22Good heavens, he must have gone completely mad.
01:01:23Well, of course, in that case, you didn't dare give it to him, eh?
01:01:27No, he didn't get it.
01:01:29But you told him that we have it, eh?
01:01:32No, you didn't tell Mrs. Elfsted.
01:01:34No.
01:01:35No, give me the manuscript, Heather, and I'll run over with it at once.
01:01:38Where is it, Heather?
01:01:41I haven't got it any longer.
01:01:43You haven't got it?
01:01:45What do you mean?
01:01:47I've burnt it, every word of it.
01:01:50Burnt it?
01:01:51You've burnt!
01:01:52Islands, manuscripts!
01:01:53Don't shout!
01:01:54But it's impossible!
01:01:55It's true.
01:01:55Oh, how could you do such a thing?
01:01:57Oh, Heather, this is unlawful appropriation of lost property.
01:02:01Now, you ask Judge Brack.
01:02:03You would better not speak to anyone.
01:02:04But why?
01:02:05Judge Brack would to anyone else.
01:02:06Why?
01:02:07Why did you do it?
01:02:08What possessed you?
01:02:09No, answer me!
01:02:13I did it for your sake, George.
01:02:16For my sake?
01:02:20You admitted that you were jealous of his work, and I couldn't bear the thought of anyone putting
01:02:28you in the shade.
01:02:29Oh, but you've never shown your love like that before, Heather.
01:02:34Perhaps I should better tell you that now.
01:02:37At this time, I...
01:02:40But you said yourself that I was filling out.
01:02:43No, ask Aunt Julie.
01:02:44She'll tell you all about it.
01:02:45Good heavens, is it true?
01:02:46Oh, don't shout the servant when you hear you.
01:02:48The servant lies only, my dear old Bertha.
01:02:51Oh, I can't wait to tell her myself.
01:02:52I can't stand it.
01:02:53I'll die from it.
01:02:54But what is it?
01:02:56Tedder!
01:02:57Oh, George, it's all so ludicrous.
01:03:00Ludicrous?
01:03:01Well, I should be overjoyed in such news.
01:03:04I can't wait to tell Aunt Julie.
01:03:05She'll be so happy.
01:03:06Oh, so happy.
01:03:08When she hears that I have burned either Leuberg's manuscript for your sake.
01:03:15Yes, sir.
01:03:15The manuscript.
01:03:17I'd forgotten about that.
01:03:21Nobody must know about the manuscript.
01:03:24Poor Islet.
01:03:25Makes me feel terrible.
01:03:30Mr. Tesman.
01:03:31What has happened?
01:03:32What is it?
01:03:32I'm terribly afraid something's happened to Islet Lovbaugh.
01:03:34Do you think so?
01:03:35When I went back to my lodging, I heard them talking about him.
01:03:37They stopped the moment I came in.
01:03:38I didn't dare question them.
01:03:40Excuse me.
01:03:42Oh, it's you, my dear judge.
01:03:44Yes.
01:03:45It's imperative that I see you at once.
01:03:47Why, has something happened?
01:03:48Yes.
01:03:48It's about Islet Lovbaugh.
01:03:49I'm sorry to say he's been taken to the hospital.
01:03:53They say he's dying.
01:03:55Oh, God!
01:03:57Oh, dear.
01:03:57To the hospital.
01:03:58Dying?
01:03:59There.
01:04:05This is your second.
01:04:08There you are.
01:04:10So sore.
01:04:13I parted from him in anger, Hedda.
01:04:15I must go to him.
01:04:17I must see him.
01:04:18I'm afraid it's useless.
01:04:19No one is allowed to see him.
01:04:22Why?
01:04:23What is it?
01:04:24He didn't try to kill himself, did he?
01:04:27I'm sure he did.
01:04:29Hedda, how can you?
01:04:31Unfortunately, you've guessed quite correctly, Mrs. Tesman.
01:04:35Oh, how horrible.
01:04:36Killed himself.
01:04:38Think of that.
01:04:38Shot himself.
01:04:39You're right again, Mrs. Tesman.
01:04:43When did it happen?
01:04:45This afternoon between three and four.
01:04:46Yes, but where did it happen?
01:04:47Where?
01:04:48Well, I suppose it's his lodging.
01:04:50Oh, no, no.
01:04:50It couldn't have been there.
01:04:51I was there myself between six and seven.
01:04:53Well, somewhere else.
01:04:53I don't know exactly.
01:04:55I only know that he was found,
01:04:56that he'd shot himself through the heart.
01:05:01How horrible to die like that.
01:05:05Through the heart?
01:05:07Yes.
01:05:10Through the heart.
01:05:12Most likely it is already over.
01:05:15Over.
01:05:16All over.
01:05:18At last, something courageous.
01:05:21Heaven's Hedda, how can you say such a thing?
01:05:24I say there's great beauty in this.
01:05:26I, that Lerbe, will have the courage to do the one right thing.
01:05:29No, no, you mustn't believe that.
01:05:31He did it in delirium.
01:05:32No, in despair.
01:05:33No, I'm sure he didn't.
01:05:34I'm sure of that.
01:05:35He must have been delirious, as he was when he tore up our manuscript.
01:05:38He tore up the manuscript?
01:05:39Yes, last night.
01:05:40How very extraordinary.
01:05:43We shall never get over this, Hedda.
01:05:47Fancy, Islet killed, and his book destroyed, too.
01:05:51If only there was some way of saving it.
01:05:54If only there were.
01:05:55There's nothing I wouldn't give to.
01:05:58Perhaps there is a way, Mr. Tessman.
01:06:01What do you mean?
01:06:03Look, I've kept all Islet's own notes that you used to dictate to me, Frank.
01:06:07You have?
01:06:08I'm afraid they're dreadfully mixed up.
01:06:10Well, perhaps together we might be able to sort them out.
01:06:13Well, we could try at any rate.
01:06:14We will try at once.
01:06:16I owe it to Islet.
01:06:17My own work will simply have to wait.
01:06:19I'm going to devote my life to this.
01:06:21You, George, your life.
01:06:22Yes, now we're going to start sorting out the notes at once.
01:06:25Come on, where shall we sit, Mrs.
01:06:27Oh, no, perhaps we'd better go in there.
01:06:34Islet Lerbeurg meant more to you than you're willing to admit, even to yourself.
01:06:39Or am I mistaken?
01:06:42I don't answer questions like that.
01:06:45I only know that Islet Lerbeurg had the courage to live his life as he saw it, and end it
01:06:53in beauty.
01:06:54He had the strength and the will to break with life, while still so vital.
01:07:00It pains me, but I fear I must rob you of your beautiful illusion.
01:07:05Illusion?
01:07:07It didn't happen exactly as I told it, for poor Mrs. Elstead's sake.
01:07:11I changed the fact slightly.
01:07:14What are the facts, then?
01:07:16Well, first, he's already dead, without regaining consciousness.
01:07:21What else have you concealed?
01:07:23Then the tragedy did not happen at his lodging.
01:07:26That makes no difference.
01:07:26Not even when I tell you that he was found shot in Mademoiselle Diane's boudoir.
01:07:31Oh, he couldn't have gone there again.
01:07:33He went there to claim something that he said they'd taken from him, talking wildly about a lost child.
01:07:38I thought he must have meant the manuscript, but now I hear he's destroyed that himself.
01:07:45So he died there?
01:07:47Yes.
01:07:48They found a pistol in his pocket.
01:07:51It had gone off, probably accidentally, wounding him fatally.
01:07:58Accidentally? Through the heart?
01:08:00No. In the bowels.
01:08:06How hideous.
01:08:12Everything I touch becomes ludicrous in the speak of me.
01:08:22There's something else, Mrs. Hedder, something rather disturbing.
01:08:27What's that?
01:08:28The pistol he carried.
01:08:30What of it?
01:08:30He must have stolen it.
01:08:32That's not true.
01:08:33Because any other explanation ought to be out of the question, Mrs. Hedder.
01:08:38Indeed?
01:08:38Of course, Loverberg was here this morning, was he not?
01:08:41Yes.
01:08:41Were you alone with him?
01:08:43Yes, for a while.
01:08:44Did you leave the room at any time while he was here?
01:08:46No.
01:08:47Now, try to remember.
01:08:48Are you sure you didn't leave the room, even for a moment?
01:08:53I might have gone out into the war.
01:08:55And where?
01:08:55Only just for a moment.
01:08:56Where was your pistol case?
01:08:58It was on my...
01:08:59Well, Mrs. Hedder?
01:09:04It was on my writing desk.
01:09:07Have you looked since to see if both pistols were there?
01:09:12No.
01:09:12Well, you needn't.
01:09:13I saw the pistol he had with him.
01:09:15I recognized it as the one I'd seen yesterday, and before that, too.
01:09:20My dear Mrs. Elfstead, we must pull ourselves together.
01:09:23Have you got it by any chance?
01:09:29No.
01:09:31The police have it.
01:09:34What will the police do with it?
01:09:36Search until they find the owner.
01:09:42And do you think they will succeed?
01:09:45No.
01:09:46Hedder Gabler.
01:09:48Not so long as I keep silent.
01:09:52And if you do not keep silent, what then?
01:09:55One could always say the pistol was stolen.
01:09:58Oh, I'd rather die.
01:10:00People say such things, but they don't do them.
01:10:05And if the pistol were found?
01:10:09Were not stolen and the owner were found?
01:10:11Then what?
01:10:13Why?
01:10:15Then, Hedder, think of the scandal.
01:10:22The scandal?
01:10:23The scandal, yes, of which you are so terrified.
01:10:26Naturally, you would have to appear in court with Mademoiselle Diane.
01:10:31She'd have to explain how the thing happened, whether it was an accident or not.
01:10:35What have I got to do with this repulsive business?
01:10:37You still have to answer the question, why did you give Lovberg the pistol?
01:10:42And what conclusion would people draw from the fact that you had given it to him?
01:10:53I never thought of that.
01:10:55Well, fortunately, there's no danger so long as I keep silent.
01:11:05And you'll keep silent as long as I do what you wish.
01:11:08That's what you mean, isn't it?
01:11:12Dearest Hedder, believe me, I shall not abuse my advantage.
01:11:18But I shall be in your hands all the same, subject to your will and your desires.
01:11:28No longer free, not free.
01:11:30I can't bear that thought, never.
01:11:33People manage to get used to the inevitable.
01:11:38Yes, perhaps they do.
01:11:51Dear, dear, how are you getting along with Ired Lovberg's memorial?
01:11:55I'm afraid it's all very difficult.
01:11:57You think you'll manage, George, eh?
01:11:59Oh, yes, we'll manage.
01:12:01After all, sorting out and arranging other people's papers,
01:12:03something I'm particularly good at.
01:12:06But I'm afraid it's going to take months to do.
01:12:09Think of that.
01:12:14Oh, dear, doesn't it seem strange?
01:12:18Here you are working with Tessman.
01:12:22Just like you used to work with Ired Lovberg.
01:12:25If only I could inspire your husband in the same way.
01:12:30No doubt that will come in time.
01:12:38Is there nothing at all that I can do for the two of you?
01:12:41No, thank you, dear.
01:12:43No, not a thing.
01:12:44I think you'll have to keep company for Hedder for the rest of the evening, my dear judge.
01:12:49With the greatest of pleasure.
01:12:52Thanks, but I'm a little tired this evening,
01:12:55and if you don't mind, I'll...
01:12:56I'll line down for a while.
01:13:09Hedder, please, please, I'm for you.
01:13:11Not that reason.
01:13:13Think of poor Rina, and of Isla, too.
01:13:16And of Aunt Julie and all the rest of the...
01:13:20Well, never mind.
01:13:23I'll be quiet from now on, I promise you.
01:13:30I think she's upset at seeing us doing such distressing work.
01:13:34Look, why don't you move over to Aunt Julie's?
01:13:37Then I can come and work with you there in the evenings, eh?
01:13:39Oh, I think that would be a good idea.
01:13:43Tessman, I can hear you.
01:13:46And what am I to do all those long evenings here, by myself?
01:13:54I'm quite sure Judge Brack will be glad to come in now and then.
01:13:59Every single evening, with the greatest of pleasure, Mrs. Tessman.
01:14:04We'll have a jolly good time together, you and I.
01:14:08Yes, that's what you hope, isn't it?
01:14:16Now that you are cock of the walk.
01:14:32Oh, great heavens.
01:14:34She's playing with those pistols again.
01:14:37Heather, dear, I asked you, do you run?
01:14:41She shot herself.
01:14:44She shot herself.
01:14:46Thank you, Mother.
01:14:47Oh, good God.
01:14:51But people don't do such things.
01:15:17Thank you, dear friends.
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