The Wild Duck
1976 · 105 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 127 VOTES · DIR. Hans W. Geißendörfer
Overview
Consul Werle holds a reception in honour of the homecoming of his son Gregers. At the reception, Gregers meets his childhood friend, Hjalmar Ekdal, who is married to Gina, a former maid of the Werle family. Hjalmar is unaware that Werle had an affair with Gina and that their 14-year-old daughter Hedwig is not his child. Gregers moves in with the Ekdals with the intention of allowing unsuspecting Hjalmar and his family to share in the "happiness of truth". Hedwig is entirely devoted to a wild duck, which lives on a pond outside their house. When Hjalmar learns the truth about his daughter, he wants to leave his family. Gregers advises Hedwig to kill the wild duck so that her father, impressed by this sacrifice, will return home. On the following day, Hedwig's birthday, she doesn't shoot the duck, but shoots herself instead.
Dialogue Timeline — 957 lines
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00:00:35 He's coming.
00:06:33 Gina!
00:09:59 and I have long desired to be able to welcome my son Gregers in my house again.
00:13:32 She a diligent, good woman.
00:16:28 Don't you agree, Mr. Ekdal?
00:20:17 And he also undertook the illegal logging on federal land. Not I.
00:23:20 A harmonious family life is being arranged for Mrs. Sörby!
00:27:20 What kinds of people were those there? -Oh, all different kinds.
00:30:03 That's to be expected if one doesn't look around.
00:35:04 Tell him to make it snappy, not that I'm afraid.
00:38:49 We're interrupting their night's sleep. Stay close to me.
00:44:13 Please let me. -If you think so.
00:49:02 They grew up with so many other chicks.
00:52:32 That's why I decided to make this noteworthy invention.
00:55:27 Now, come on! You can't forgo Mrs. Ekdal's pickled herring salad.
00:58:24 I would advise you not to play the righteous one as long as I am here.
01:02:55 You have to go for a long walk with me.
01:07:22 Would you have taken me if you had known?
01:11:27 Hey, my good friends...
01:15:45 You three have to stay together.
01:19:32 And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
01:24:06 To relinquish what you love most, that is something monumental.
01:30:20 I will never eat under this roof again!
01:34:39 Do you know what that was? -Of course I know. He's shooting rabbits again.