Great Expectations

Story

Synopsis

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

A.W. Sandberg

Writers

Laurids Skands, Charles Dickens

Language

Danish

Country

Denmark

Release date

28 February 1922

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Gerhard Jessen

  Joe Gargery the blacksmith

• Ellen Rovsing

  Mrs Gargary

• 

  Martin Herzberg

  Pip as a child

• Harry Komdrup

  Pip

• Peter Nielsen

  Dolge Orlick

• Emil Helsengreen

  Abel Magwitch

• 

  Marie Dinesen

  Miss Havisham

• 

  Olga Belajeff

  Estella, Miss Havisham's foster daughter

• Esther Kjær Jensen

  Estella as a child

• Egill Rostrup

  Mr Jaggers the lawyer

• Ellen Lilien

  Biddy

• Alfred Meyer

  Uncle Pumblechook