John Gabriel Borkman, a bankrupt banker, remained in custody for three years, passed another five in jail, and for the next eight he had been closed to his room, in a voluntary prison, denying to get out to the last day of his life. In the same exaggerated way he sacrificed his personal happiness: he put apart his love for Ella and got married his sister Gkounchilnt who would secure him the necessary money to accomplish his vision, his social and industrial development. And this is his great unforgivable crime. The director of the performance Vasilis Vafeas stresses for the play of Ibsen: 'it is a review of life showing the revenge of the primary values of life, such as love, when they ignore them. Borkman is a 'criminal' not because he misappropriated money but because he misappropriated both the feelings of the men near him and his. It is an inveterate vision who does not hesitate to sacrifice everything even the things not belonging to the altar of his vision...'.
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