Hedda (film) and directed by Trevor Nunn and ingeniously interpreted by Jackson. Seldom has a classic been so well served." J.C. Trewin wrote, "No Hedda, seeking an object she cannot determine, has been more infinitely bored, or more dangerous." Hedda (film) Hedda is a 1975 film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler". It stars Peter Eyre, Glenda Jackson and Patrick Stewart and was directed by Trevor Nunn. This was the first (and so far the only) major theatrical film version of the play in English. Previous productions of the play in English with sound had all been made for television. It was
Hedda Vernon Piel. She also worked in other films directed by Piel and collaborated with Max Obal until 1914. Some of her early films are "The Struggle for the Heritage" (1912), "The Brown Beast" (1914), and "The Iron Cross" (1914). In 1914 she founded her own production company, Hedda Vernon Films, in Berlin and produced her own films for the Hedda Vernon series, including the self-directed "The Yellow Grimace" (1914) and "Hedda Vernon's Stage Sketch" (1916). She also acted in several Eiko film productions until the end of World War I, mainly under the direction of her husband Hubert Moest, who founded