Hedda Gabler (1962) ★

Hedda Gabler is a 1962 British BBC television drama production of Henrik Ibsen’s play of the same name. It features Ingrid Bergman, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, and Trevor Howard. Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple, However, the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything.