Das Haus der Lüge

Das Haus der Lüge plunges the viewer into the suffocating aftermath of a family's precipitous fall from grace. We find Hjalmar Ekdal, a man burdened by the echoes of his father's scandal, attempting to carve out a meager existence in a cramped, dilapidated dwelling. His household is a microcosm of quiet desperation: the increasingly senile patriarch, the stoic and pragmatic wife Gina, and the innocent daughter Hedvig, whose world is unknowingly constructed upon a fragile foundation of deceit. Even a solitary duck, a peculiar resident, seems to underscore the melancholic, confined reality of their lives, hinting at a past grandeur shattered and a present defined by secrets and the struggle for survival in the shadow of a forgotten fortune.