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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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