Hunger (1966)

Original title

Sult

Directed by

Henning Carlsen

Genre

drama film

Country

Denmark, Sweden, Norway

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

12

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 53 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A starving writer wanders the streets of Oslo in the 1890s, struggling to maintain his dignity while his body and mind deteriorate from hunger. The film follows his desperate attempts to find work and food, and his interactions with the people he meets.

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What happens

Hunger (Danish: Sult, Swedish: Svält) is a 1966 black-and-white drama film directed by Denmark's Henning Carlsen, starring Swedish actor Per Oscarsson, and based upon the novel Hunger by Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun. Filmed on location in Oslo, it was the first film produced as a cooperative effort among the three Scandinavian countries. With its stark focus on a life of poverty and desperation, the film is considered a masterpiece of social realism. Film historians suggest it was the first Danish film to gain serious international attention since the work of Carl Theodor Dreyer. It is one of the ten films listed in Denmark's cultural canon by the Danish Ministry of Culture. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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