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Young Sinners (1959)

Young Sinners poster
Original title
Ung flukt
Directed by
Edith Carlmar
Genre
drama film
Country
Norway
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
18
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman from a poor background and her university student boyfriend run away together after his parents oppose their relationship. The film follows their struggle to stay together despite their different social classes.

romantictensemelancholicrebelliousyearningdramaticintimate

What happens

Ung Flukt or The Wayward Girl is a 1959 Norwegian film directed by Edith Carlmar with a screenplay by Otto Carlmar and Niels Johan Rud. It marks the acting debut of Norwegian film actress Liv Ullmann who had previously appeared as an uncredited extra in Edith Carlmar's 1957 film Fools in the Mountain. The film is about the affair between two young lovers, the uneducated and wild Gerd, and her bourgeois boyfriend, university student Anders who decides to run away with Gerd to continue their relationship when his parents disapprove of them. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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