"Ghosts" (Judi Dench) Part 1 of 4

[@filipchung2121]

It's great to see Natasha Richardson again in Ghosts. She was such a lovely and fine actress. I'll will always miss her.

[@shananalexander9789]

Natasha Richardson was one of my favorite actresses. I adored everything she was in. I miss her being in movies. RIP Natasha. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[@georgiahorton1591]

Shanan Alexander , how and when did she pass away?

[@notyou9743]

@@georgiahorton1591 skiing accident many years ago

[@gretafields4706]

I am always amazed at the actors, how they are so incredibly sensitive to a script like this. This is just great acting.

[@lechat8736]

Greta Fields - Very well put :)

[@marcosansley1923]

yes

[@JRsttl88]

Michael Gambon.. Judi Dench and Natasha Richardson.. I'm having an overdose now!!

[@marichristian1072]

Yes! What a cast!

[@hbhatia17]

Arguably,Judy Dench performs the best Mrs Alving of all time!

[@christrinder1255]

Great actors of our time, a must watch play! Many thanks for posting 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍😊

[@rlhastick6282]

A young Kenneth Branagh as Oswald. Brilliant!

[@julie5668]

Remembering Natasha Richardson.

[@filipchung2121]

Yes indeed! Natasha Richardson was a very beautiful and so talented actress. Regretfully, she died too young.

[@melodiefrances3898]

Yes, very much so. Such a tragedy. 💔❤

[@ritawing1064]

What a splendid choice for the music! Beautiful piece.

[@suzannemoogan9675]

This is a wonderfully sublime performance of Ibsen's Ghosts by all cast. I first saw this version on performance in the early nineties. Performance was broadcast by the BBC 2 in the UK, it was an amazing concept to bring back theatre to the masses. Natascha, RIP gives a magnificent performance as Regina, Natasha was a more talented actor than her mother or grandfather, if that is possible I read Ibsen regularly as a child as my mother taught English, French and Drama from time to time. At home there were entire libraries of playwrights and literature that she had built up from the late 1950's. I became obsessed with the plays of Ibsen after reading The Master builder when I was eight, Ibsen was a modern humanist. In my opinion he was the Norwegian equivalent of Emile Zola another writer that I was obsessed by at the time, actually still am as I prefer the French writers to the English apart from Graham Greene I reiterate, all the performers give an outstanding performance Kenneth's mollycoddled Oswald is beyond outstanding as is Judi Dench's overbearing mother Michael Gambon is excellent in any role.

[@jesuslovesme1956]

Suzanne Moogan you sound like you had a wonderful childhood. I was never introduced to any good books till I was in college. Both my parents had no time for us. I was lucky to have read Nancy drew. Glad to see you explaining things. Thank you

[@oceanbrzzz]

Suzanne Moogan I was so blessed to have a library of classics in my home. Like you, I read when I was very young, I didn’t understand much of what I read, but I’m sure it eventually helped me with my undergrad English degree and studies of English literature. The love of reading influenced my entire life. You had a wonderful influence in your mother! You sound so interesting and have a much deeper understanding of Ibsen than I ever had! 🤓

[@shananalexander9789]

Suzanne Moogan You have inspired me to read Ibsen. Thank you.

[@stanochocki8984]

LoL....(he turned towards the Grey Room) and said..""....Do Tell, Love.."LoL......I prefer The Sun and National Observer to Le Figaro...

[@williambrown340]

Miss Judy dance is an awesome actress and a singer

[@RedcoatsReturn]

This must have been late 80s, Freddy Jones was still going strong and Kenneth Brannagh in his boyish youthful prime. Judy Dench looking much younger too. A very classy casting, to be cherished in this great work of Ibsen! 😊👏👏👏😊

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Yes. Freddie Jones on his day could upstage anyone . There's an episode of Sherlock Holmes where he steals a couple of scenes from Jeremy Brett . How many actors could pull that off !?

[@williambrown340]

Queen Judi Dench actress of England is just a pleasure to see

[@jeannehageman3198]

Oh WOW, what a cast! Excellent!

[@jackwalder874]

Agreed. Haven't watched yet but looking forward to it just because of the cast.

[@jeannehageman3198]

If you enjoy Dench, Gambon, Branagh & Richardson ( any one or all), you'll enjoy this one. All at their very best. High Drama, gut wrenching & at times, very gentle & heartbreaking! Definitely, a classic! Enjoy!

[@kidkitty5534]

Thank you for the upload. I love this type of show.

[@VILA1963]

What a cast!

[@klientproby]

Ibsen's plays were always so depressing, but also true to the real world. Whilst events take place long ago, the themes are always relevant to any age. Says a lot about the human condition.

[@reving19]

DAME JUDITH DENCH IS SO TALENTED AND BEAUTIFUL LOVE HER😍

[@mikeelmira]

There is nothing she has done that I didn’t love.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Check out : The Browning Version by Terence Rattigan . It's been posted on KZbin !!

[@yixulu5305]

thanks for uploading!! great script and acting.

[@gogoshagara5475]

i love this play thank you thank yoou to upload it now i can understand it better..

[@jackiemarini3203]

My best friends gram always said a drunk tells the truth .Bless you gram miss you 💖💖✝☮💜

[@gaynormossop1678]

Freddie Jones marvellous actor you won't see his like again

[@2msvalkyrie529]

He was one of a generation of theatre trained actors who spent years in rep learning their craft. Sadly , many of them have passed away and simply cannot be replaced by the present crop.!

[@ziblot1235]

Wow what a cast!

[@bayreuth79]

A Hammerskoi aesthetic. Nice touch.

[@tonimoon6346]

Dame Judi would have been a wicked “woman in black”...

[@celticm6616]

Woman in black tv version is the best it was on about 20 years.

[@tonimoon6346]

Steven Cooper yes! I managed to find a copy of it...really great!

[@celticm6616]

Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968)The Stalls of Barchester (1971)A Warning to the Curious (1972)Lost Hearts (1973)The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974)The Ash Tree (1975)The Signalman (1976)Stigma (1977)The Ice House (1978)A View from a Hill (2005)Number 13 (2006)Whistle and I’ll Come to You (2010) Found most of these they are Christmas ghost stories.

[@ElSmusso]

strange to see it in English, but very well played

[@scarletibis3158]

ty so much!

[@Hermes1548]

The Freedom of the Artist defeated by the Morality of Society. Imagination vs. Convention. The Joy of Life vs. Life as Suffering. Paganism vs. Christianity. Best Ibsen's Play. Terrific Tragedy. "Give me the Sun, mother! The Sun!" Euthanasia as a Human Right. Ibsen was way ahead of his time here.

[@jeanettesdaughter]

Ricardo Mena oh good grief. It’s not that simple? Is it? You seem to think paganism was all dancing, free love and throwing flowers? It was tooth and nail survival and the devil take the hindmost. It was infant mortality, maternal mortality, war and slavery, famine, disease, and early death. It was emperors fiddling while their nations burned. Life began to improve dramatically and life spans have increased as well as qualities of life like clean water for millions more people globally after the advent of Christianity, and it continues to improve despite the horrifying setbacks of the twentieth century. Pagan gods and goddesses took their pound of flesh from the minds of ignorant and fearful men and women as well as any organized religion thereafter. In fact, the pagan mind continues inside all of the organized religions and THAT is a problem and primary contradiction. Good grief! READ.

[@TakeA1970sShower]

Natasha looks kinda young like when she was in handmaids tale.

[@0livelanette859]

Wikipedia: Helen Alving is about to dedicate an orphanage she has built in memory of her late husband, Captain Alving. She reveals to Pastor Manders that her marriage was secretly miserable because her husband was unfaithful. She has built the orphanage to deplete her husband's wealth so that their son Oswald will not inherit anything from him. Pastor Manders once advised her to return to her husband despite his philandering, and she followed his advice in the hope that she could reform him. But her husband continued his affairs until his death, and Mrs. Alving stayed with him to protect her son from the taint of scandal and for fear of being shunned by the community. In the course of the play, she discovers that her son Oswald (whom she had sent away to avoid his being corrupted by his father) is suffering from syphilis that she believes he inherited from his father.[a] She also discovers that Oswald has fallen in love with her maid Regina Engstrand, who is revealed to be the illegitimate daughter of Captain Alving and is therefore Oswald's half-sister. A sub-plot involves a carpenter, Jacob Engstrand, who married Regina's mother when she was already pregnant. He regards Regina as his own daughter. He is with unaware, or pretends to be, that Captain Alving was Regina's father. Having recently completed his work building Mrs. Alving's orphanage, Engstrand announces his ambition to open a hostel for seafarers. He tries to persuade Regina to leave Mrs. Alving and help him run the hostel, but she refuses. The night before the orphanage is due to open, Engstrand asks Pastor Manders to hold a prayer-meeting there. Later that night, the orphanage burns down. Earlier, Manders had persuaded Mrs. Alving not to insure the orphanage, as to do so would imply a lack of faith in divine providence. Engstrand says the blaze was caused by Manders' carelessness with a candle and offers to take the blame, which Manders readily accepts. Manders in turn offers to support Engstrand's hostel. When Regina and Oswald's sibling relationship is exposed, Regina departs, leaving Oswald in anguish. He asks his mother to help him avoid the late stages of syphilis with a fatal morphine overdose. She agrees, but only if it becomes necessary. The play concludes with Mrs. Alving having to confront the decision of whether or not to euthanize her son in accordance with his wishes.[8]

[@Tealcorvette]

The publication of Ghosts in 1881 caused an uproar and almost ruined Ibsen. It was banned across Europe and sales of his plays plummeted. Its themes of moral degredation - out-of-wedlock children, venereal disease, incest, infidelity, and euthanasia - proved too shocking. The play remains shocking even for modern-day audiences. Captain Alving was a respected man in his community, and on the tenth anniversary of his death, Mrs Alving is preparing for the opening of an orphanage in his honor. This effort however, is really an attempt by Mrs Alving to mask her hidden disgust with Captain Alving who in reality was a cheating, immoral philanderer who bequethed a deadly legacy to his son Oswald

[@kalimadekracovia2012]

Saludos, me gustaria verla en idioma español.

[@samanthab1923]

Freddie Jones is Toby Jones dad.

[@saa82vik]

Is the parson played by a young Michael Gambin?? Wow

[@pillardelaney4726]

Yes, but is gambin ,is Gambon, one of his famous films is the Master in Harry Potter.

[@dizzydino1]

a Marvel ❣️👍❣️

[@floraposteschild4184]

I love all the casting, except for Michael Gambon. He's much brighter and more sophisticated than his character is!

[@patricias5122]

That's exactly why he's a highly regarded actor.

[@floraposteschild4184]

But not by me, in this role. :D A knowing Pastor Manders is an interesting interpretation -- for example, he knows what Regina is suggesting to him right away. What's up with this smart man who says naive things, and is shocked, shocked! by everything the Alvings have to say? Or is he? It could work, but I don't see it in the play, as written.

[@jacquesvandermeer6668]

1987...

[@renzo6490]

The set might have been designed by Vilhelm Hammershøi.

[@mikehattan]

I had never even heard of nor seen this movie until now and I was intrigued by your comment about the set and how it might have been designed by a certain Vilhelm Hammershol and so I looked him up and was struck by the truth of your comment . The subtle, brooding and subdued colours are a perfect background for such a story. Some shots of Judi Dench are like a beautiful painting.

[@E-Kat]

⁠​⁠@@mikehattanDepressing colours, drab rooms with nothing to rest one's eye on. Where demons and ogars come to stay, away fro beauty and colour which hurts their eyes? I'm half way through this and don't know if I care for more of this overacted and depressing play. My life's already depressing so better stop now. Thanks for uploading. 🥀

[@kashesan]

What year was this production staged?

[@Forestier1]

Music by Arnold Schoenberg.

[@E-Kat]

Why the walls in this house look like that! Like covered in dirt?

[@user-vy3ot4yn8n]

Ugh I can't stand Pastor Manders! What a perfectionist, odious character!

[@expectationofplenty]

Lesser actors have made him a figure of fun, a pedentic buffoon. On the page his hypocrisies are so glaring and absurd, as if the character is trying to wrench the world into his short-sighted ideology. In this production the world revolves around Gambon because he is the world the play inhabits. This is what makes him terrifying and not amusing.

[@Angie-GoneSoon]

I think the things she reads is none of his business.

[@pravinasings8098]

He's slime. Trying to control people with his religious clap-trap. Then putting on a "face" to manipulate those who support him. Not a perfectionist, but a self-serving ego. He is odious, in every sense of the word.

[@thisbushnell2012]

a pharisee of the pharisees, to use the Pastor's own touchstone, certain of his righteousness, and a true exemplar of the times.

[@thisbushnell2012]

@@Angie-GoneSoon but she is 'just a woman, (little better than a child in those days,) so in need of the guidance not just of a pastor, but of any man rather than her own intellect, if a woman could be said to have one.'

[@elizarkozik4715]

Is Micheal Gambon play Pastor Manders? I recongnase his voice

[@tupmanzozzie]

I suppose it might be my imagination, but it seems clear that Gambon is doing an impersonation of Alec Guinness in this.

[@j.a.jazaha7032]

Can you help me to get the full text of it please

[@micheefus]

you can find it transcribed on the project gutenberg site, there's a direct link to it through wikipedia, just get to the play's wikipage

[@JANXDPDX]

Henrik Ibsen

[@waderaney7]

👍😀

[@abbudehgharib3399]

It is a good embodiment for the corruption of religious people

[@lindak990]

Freddie Jones always played a drunk. Was he??

[@dismith73]

I don't think so.

[@Tempe1962]

Whats with that flat top haircut Ken has? It looks like someone took a lawnmower down the center.

[@Tarbh1947]

What does "insurance" have anything to do with anything???? This part doesn't make sense to me.

[@TrixterBambi]

no insurance means no money to use for the alving family in case the orphanage burns down. it was also sort of a test by Manders for Mrs. Alving, especially in her belief in divine providence.

[@catherinekibugi1731]

@@TrixterBambi oh wow just started watching this and the insurance issue was bothering me now i get it my God the hypocrisy and manipulation of religious leaders to make sure that the poor remain poorer and blame them for not relying in Devine intervention Thanks TrixterBambi for pointing that out

[@alisonarmstrong8421]

Still a play...

[@sharonfauber2118]

I miss Susan Richardson.

[@sandybeebe9149]

Certainly not a perk ! It's depressing as all get out.Such a dark environment and scenario dramatic sad and all about pain ..I had no desire to finish watching it ...

[@barbarawhittall2311]

Sandy Beebe thank you for the warning will find something else

[@kennethdesmondmosley1075]

Sandy Beebe well syphillis can be a dark subject

[@terriaustill2211]

Thank you SO much for the heads up!!! I'll not watch. Thank you for helping me protect my mind and my ❤️

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Yes....Ibsen was not best known for his comedies . Perhaps an episode of Seinfeld would be more to your taste. ?

[@jeanettestefanisko8767]

I think the it's too slow getting to the point thank you New York USA

[@andiemorgan961]

Stick to Disney.

[@geoffreygoodyear3746]

Boring Judi same face same voice same style ...

[@mere8938]

BORING 🤮💩😠

[@pravinasings8098]

I thought you weren't telling me. Then keep your opinion to yourself.

[@AnaRamirez-ng1tj]

Fuck off