Peer Gynt

Dobrodružný, USA, 1941, 100 min.



In Norway in 1871, Peer Gynt's mother Aase chastises her ne'er-do-well son for failling to provide for the family. She warns him that his sweetheart, Ingrid Haegstad, is about to marry Mads Moen, a shy villager at whom Peer sneers. Although Peer promises to bring honor to his mother, he continues to tease her, shun work and mistreat women. Later, at Ingrid's wedding, he terrorizes the other villagers but is stopped in his tracks by the arrival of a beautiful newcomer, Solveig. Solveig, however, spurns his rough attentions, and in response, he abducts Ingrid, carries her into the mountains and seduces her. Afterward, she begs him to marry her, but he pushes her away and runs to the forest, where three cowherd girls ply him with fruit and kisses. Deep in the forest, Peer meets the Woman in Green, who tells him she is the daughter of the Dovre-King, or the Boyg, a troll who rules the mountains. At first they play together, but she soon leads him to her father's castle, where he is imprisoned, tied to a stake and threatened by masked figures. As Peer is attacked, the Boyg taunts him but Peer eventually escapes. He builds himself a hut in the mountains, where Solveig soon arrives to inform him that she has run away from her family in order to live with him. Just as they settle into domestic happiness, however, the Woman in Green returns, now an old hag with a disfigured child, who she claims is Peter's son. She informs him that only when he banishes Solveig will she return to her beautiful form, and when he refuses to do so, she warns him that she will plague them forever. To protect Solveig, Peer leaves, asking her to wait for him. He returns to his mother's cottage just in time to comfort her before she dies, after which he leaves for the seacoast. Within five years, Peer, now known as Sir Peter Gynt, has earned a fortune as a trader and lives in Morocco. One night, three competitors ply him with drinks until he signs a contract turning over all his assets to them, rendering him bankrupt once again. When he wakes the next day, he travels through the desert, stopping to seduce a famed dancer named Anitra. After charming her into falling in love with him, however, he leaves. Years later, Peer, now a ship captain in the North Sea, battles a storm that capsizes the ship, and saves himself at the cost of another man's life. He returns once again to his hometown in Norway, where he witnesses his own funeral. Feeling doomed by this vision, he wanders the hill, and when a thin man asks him where he can find Peer Gynt in order to save him, Peer scornfully instructs him to search in South America. Soon after, a button molder approaches and informs Peer that, because of his evil ways, he must melt Peet down into raw materials, like a button. Now desperate for his life, Peer argues that he has not been complete failure as a man, but cannot convince the button molder until he hears Solveig, now an old woman, singing. The button molder, realizing that Solveig's vision of Peer can redeem him, agrees to give him one more chance to "set his home in order."
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Režie: David Bradley
Herci: Charlton Heston, Betty Hanisee, Mrs. Hubert Hyde, Lucielle Powell, Sue Straub, více...

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