Hunger (1966 film)

Sult
Front DVD cover for the film
Directed byHenning Carlsen
Written by
Produced by
  • Göran Lindgren
  • Bertil Ohlsson
Starring
CinematographyHenning Kristiansen
Edited byHenning Carlsen
Music byKrzysztof Komeda
Distributed byAthena Film
Release date
  • 19 August 1966 (1966-08-19)
Running time
111 minutes
Countries
  • Denmark
  • Norway
  • Sweden
LanguagesSwedish, Norwegian, Danish

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.[1] Filmed on location in Oslo, it was the first film produced as a cooperative effort among the three Scandinavian countries.[2]

With its stark focus on a life of poverty and desperation, the film is considered a masterpiece of social realism.[3] Film historians suggest it was the first Danish film to gain serious international attention since the work of Carl Theodor Dreyer.[4] It is one of the ten films listed in Denmark's cultural canon by the Danish Ministry of Culture.[3]

  1. ^ Monty, Ib Sult (Hunger), International Dictionary of Film and Filmmakers, 2000
  2. ^ Nestingen et al. 2005, p. 143.
  3. ^ a b "Sult" (PDF). Kulturkanonen (in Danish). Kulturministeriet. January 2006. pp. 91–92. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 April 2017. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
  4. ^ Nestingen et al. 2005, p. 119.