Overview
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Director and cast
- Gerhard Jessen as Joe Gargery the blacksmith
- Ellen Rovsing as Mrs Gargary
- Martin Herzberg as Pip as a child
- Harry Komdrup as Pip
- Peter Nielsen as Dolge Orlick
- Emil Helsengreen as Abel Magwitch
- Marie Dinesen as Miss Havisham
- Olga Belajeff as Estella, Miss Havisham's foster daughter
- Esther Kjær Jensen as Estella as a child
- Egill Rostrup as Mr Jaggers the lawyer
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