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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 is 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.
Original Release
08/19/1966
US Release
08/12/1968
Cast
Name | Character |
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Per Oscarsson | Pontus |
Gunnel Lindblom | Ylajali |
Birgitte Federspiel | Her sister |
Knud Rex | Landlord |
Hans W. Petersen | Grocer |
Henki Kolstad | Editor |
Roy Bjørnstad | Konstantin |
Sverre Hansen | Painter |
Pål Skjønberg | Constable |
Else Heiberg | Landlady |
Directors
Writers
Knut Hamsun, Peter Seeberg, Henning Carlsen
Cast
Name | Character |
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Per Oscarsson | Pontus |
Gunnel Lindblom | Ylajali |
Birgitte Federspiel | Her sister |
Knud Rex | Landlord |
Hans W. Petersen | Grocer |
Henki Kolstad | Editor |
Roy Bjørnstad | Konstantin |
Sverre Hansen | Painter |
Pål Skjønberg | Constable |
Else Heiberg | Landlady |
Lise Fjeldstad | Little girl |
Carl Ottosen | Sailor |
Bjarne Andersen | |
Wilfred Breistrand | |
Osvald Helmuth | Pawnbroker |
Sigrid Horne-Rasmussen | Landlady |
Ola B. Johannessen | |
Lars Tvinde | |
Per Theodor Haugen | Shop Assistant |
Egil Hjorth-Jenssen | Man in the Park |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Henning Carlsen | Producer |
Göran Lindgren | Producer |
Bertil Ohlsson | Producer |