Hedda Gabler (2016 film) husband, she is pregnant by him and is revolted by the thought of carrying his child and the changes that motherhood will impose upon her future. When the re-appearance of an old flame of hers threatens both Jorgen's career prospects and her own amour propre, Hedda contrives to bring about Lovborg's destruction but, in the process, also brings about her own. Hedda Gabler (2016 film) Hedda Gabler is a film based on the Victorian period drama Hedda Gabler, written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. One of many film adaptations of this play, the 2014 film "Hedda Gabler" was produced, adapted
Hedda Gabler as her father's daughter than her husband's wife." Hedda, the daughter of an aristocratic and enigmatic general, has just returned to her villa in Kristiania (now Oslo) from her honeymoon. Her husband is George Tesman, a young, aspiring, and reliable (but not brilliant) academic who continued his research during their honeymoon. It becomes clear in the course of the play that she has never loved him but married him because she thinks her years of youthful abandon are over. It is also suggested that she may be pregnant. The reappearance of George's academic rival, Eilert Løvborg, throws their lives into