Great Expectations
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.
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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.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Laurids Skands
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Runtime:113 minutes
Studio:Nordisk Film Denmark
Cast
A.W. Sandberg
Director
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
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