Hunger

Based On the book by Knut Hamsun

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.

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Release date:

August 19, 1966

Director:

Henning Carlsen

Cast:

Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel, Henki Kolstad, Hans W. Petersen

Genre:

Drama

Country:

Sweden, Norway, Denmark

Language:

Danish

Year page:

1966 in adaptations