Hunger
Hambre (película)
1966 · Norway, Sweden, Denmark · 111 min
- Director
- Henning Carlsen
- Screenplay
- Peter Seeberg, Henning Carlsen
- Producer
- Henning Carlsen, Göran Lindgren
- Music
- Krzysztof Komeda
- Cinematography
- Henning Kristiansen
- Editing
- Henning Carlsen
- Production company
- Swedish Film Institute, Sandrew Film & Theater, Studio ABC
- Based on
- Hunger
Awards: · 1 nominations
Cast
What it is about
Kristiania, 1890. Pontus, a poor and lonely writer, arrives in the city from the countryside and soon finds himself trapped in a poverty he cannot control. He pawns what little he owns, gives away the money he receives and turns down help out of pride, while hunger pushes him between hallucination and reality.
How it was made
Directed by Denmark's Henning Carlsen, the film adapts Knut Hamsun's novel Hunger, written by the Norwegian Nobel laureate. It was shot on location in Oslo and was the first production made as a cooperative effort among the three Scandinavian countries. Carlsen co-wrote the script with Peter Seeberg and also edited the film. Swedish actor Per Oscarsson plays the lead, Henning Kristiansen shot the black-and-white photography and Krzysztof Komeda composed the score.
Reception and legacy
It is considered a masterpiece of social realism. Film historians regard it as the first Danish film to win serious international attention since the work of Carl Theodor Dreyer. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or and won the Bodil Award for Best Danish Film in 1967. Per Oscarsson won the Best Actor award at Cannes in 1966. Denmark later included it in its cultural canon.
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Trivia
First Scandinavian co-production
It was the first film made as a cooperative effort among Norway, Sweden and Denmark, the three Scandinavian countries.
Danish cultural canon
The Danish Ministry of Culture listed it among the ten films in Denmark's cultural canon.
More films by Henning Carlsen
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