Great Expectations

Great Expectations — Plot

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.

• Release date
• February 28, 1922
• Runtime
• 113 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• A.W. Sandberg

Great Expectations — Cast

Gerhard Jessen Joe Gargery the blacksmith

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Ellen Rovsing Mrs Gargary Martin Herzberg Pip as a child

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Harry Komdrup Pip

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Peter Nielsen Dolge Orlick

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Emil Helsengreen Abel Magwitch Marie Dinesen Miss Havisham Olga Belajeff Estella, Miss Havisham's foster daughter