Films for the Humanities and Sciences

Ibsen: Ghosts

Ibsen endures, because the strangling effects of convention are as recognizable today as when he first shocked his bourgeois audiences with plays that revealed how destructive are the impulses beneath the façade of propriety. For years, Mrs. Alving has, for appearance’s sake, endured a loveless marriage to a dissolute and drunken man. She even sent her only son away from home so that he would not be corrupted by his father. But despite (or, ironically, perhaps because of) her efforts, the ghosts of the past are resurrected as her son reappears, the obvious heir to his father’s sins and excesses. With Dorothy Tutin, Richard Pasco, and Ronald Fraser. (90 minutes)

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