The Wild Duck

Henrik Ibsen

⏱ 7 minDrama

A fanatical idealist forces the truth on a family living happily on comfortable illusions, and brings not freedom but catastrophe. Ibsen's great tragicomedy of the saving lie, and the wounded wild duck in the loft.

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