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A doll's house [videorecording (DVD)] / 2 entertain ; British Broadcasting Corporation ; BBC Worldwide Ltd. ; produced by Simon Curtis ; directed by David Thacker.

Thacker, David. (Added Author). Curtis, Simon, 1960- (Added Author). Stevenson, Juliet. (Added Author). Eve, Trevor, 1951- (Added Author). James, Geraldine, 1950- (Added Author). Malahide, Patrick. (Added Author). Calder, David, 1946- (Added Author). Tindale, Joan. (Added Author). Woolfenden, Guy. (Added Author). Elliot, Michael. (Added Author). Meyer, Michael. (Added Author). McGoohan, Patrick, 1928-2009 (Added Author). Hamlett, Dilys. (Added Author). Maxwell, James, 1929- (Added Author). Wymark, Patrick, 1926-1970 (Added Author). Sallis, Peter. (Added Author). McFarland, Olive. (Added Author). Lorimer, Enid. (Added Author). Mackay, Fulton, 1922-1987 (Added Author). Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 Dukkehjem. English. (Added Author). Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 Brand. English. (Added Author). Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906 Peer Gynt. English. (Added Author). 2 Entertain (Firm) (Added Author). British Broadcasting Corporation. (Added Author). BBC Video (Firm) (Added Author). BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. (Added Author). Doll's house: Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve, Geraldine James, Patrick Malahide, David Calder, Sonia Ritter, Helen Blatch, Dennis Clinton. (Cast). Brand: Patrick McGoohan, Dilys Hamlett, James Maxwell, Patrick Wymark, Peter Sallis, Olive McFarland, Enid Lorimer, Fulton MacKay. (Cast).

Summary:

A doll's house: Nora Helmer feels suffocated and belittled in her marriage to banker Torvald. When faced with blackmail as a result of an attempt to save her husband's life, Nora decides that the only way to discover the real world is to step outside the illusions within her doll's house.

Brand: A pastor returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. He believes ministering to these poor people to be his calling. Over the course of time, however, he faces many difficult choices. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealist view of morality, have dire consequences for all the people he touches and, ultimately, for his own embattled soul.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 DVD (228 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher: [England] : BBC Video : 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Based on the plays by Henrik Ibsen. A doll's house originally broadcast on BBC television November 21, 1992; Brand originally broadcast on BBC television August 11, 1959. Brand: "This production was originally staged by the 59 Theatre Company at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith." Special feature: Radio play "Peer Gynt" (1943) starring Ralph Richardson, with popular music by Edvard Grieg.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Doll's house: from an original translation by Joan Tindale; music composed by Guy Woolfenden; costume designer, Lyn Avery Reynolds; camera supervisor, Dave Bowden. Brand: Translated from the Norwegian by Michael Meyer; Television design, Gordon Roland; costume designer, Richard Negri;
Participant or Performer Note:	Doll's house: Juliet Stevenson, Trevor Eve, Geraldine James, Patrick Malahide, David Calder, Sonia Ritter, Helen Blatch, Dennis Clinton. Brand: Patrick McGoohan, Dilys Hamlett, James Maxwell, Patrick Wymark, Peter Sallis, Olive McFarland, Enid Lorimer, Fulton MacKay.
System Details Note:	Region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital stereo., DVD-9, NTSC.
Language Note:	Closed-captioned.