An egocentric artillery Captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress off the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a ... See full summary »
While playing Edgar onstage in the National Theater, Olivier became ill and had to be replaced for a while. His replacement, who received high praise from critics and Olivier himself, was the young Anthony Hopkins.
Alice:
Twenty-five years I have lived in this fortress, captive. Like the prisoners used to be in the dungeons below here. Guarded by a man I have always hated, whom I now hate so utterly that the day he died I should laugh aloud.
Kurt:
Why did you never separate?
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