Henrik Ibsens play Vildanden (The Wild Duck) premiered in 1885 in Bergen, Norway. The play has been adapted to both silent and talking movies, the earliest in 1926 when a German silent film was made. The most known movie was made in 1983 and stared Jeremey Irons and Liv Ullmann. The theme of the play is will people get a better life if uncomfortable truths about their life came out. The different characters in the play have different opinions about this. The most famous is the doctor who consideres the "life lie" to be a medicine for man. Other important roles in the play are Håkon Werle, a rich city merchant, Hjalmar Ekdahl and his wife Gina, and Hedvig, their daughter. The play has been translated to over 60 languages and are still being played around the world today.
The most famous quote from the play is the Relling saying
"If you take the life-lie away from a person you take his life"
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