A Doll's House (I) (1973)
7/10
Good Movie
19 April 2013
Warning: Spoilers
The movie Doll's House was directed by Patrick Garland. The lead Characters are Claire Bloom as Nora Helmer, a housewife whose only wish in life is to please her husband Torvald Helmer played by Anthony Hopkins. Torvald has gotten a job promotion. Then one of Torvald's employees Krogstad played by Denholm Elliot, discusses a rumor about being fired. His presence scares Nora, and he leaves once he finds that the rumor is true. After his visit Nora's old school mate Kristine Linde played by Anna Massey and asks if Nora can help her find a job now that her husband that she never loved is dead and has no way of making money. Linde takes Krogstad's position at the bank. Dr Rank, played by Ralph Richardson has arrived and he goes to visit Torvald privately. While Dr. Rank is with Torvald, Nora receives a visitor of her own, Krogstad. We then find out that she owes him 4,000 dollars which she had borrowed from Krogstad to save her dying husband. Torvald doesn't know and Nora is too scared of her husband to let him know. Krogstad threatens to tell Torvald should Nora not save his position. She tries and Torvald refuses to keep him on at the bank. Nora becomes desperate to keep her husband from reading the letter that holds the information of this deal. Then the day of their ball Linde goes to her old flame Krogstad and begs him to spare the Helmer household of this travesty. He agrees when Linde says she wants to be with him again, and she can support their family with her new job at the bank. Krogstad arrives too late with the letter that pardons the Helmer's fate. Torvald scolds and bans his wife and then forgives her, but then she realizes she wants nothing to do with him, since she has fallen out of love with him. This movie describes the fate that is inevitably true in all of us.
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