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Hunger

1966 · 112 min

A slow, immersive plunge into starvation and pride, where reality flickers and every small humiliation cuts deep.

Directed by
Henning Carlsen
Genres
Drama
Starring
Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel
Overview
In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. All the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

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Directed by
Henning Carlsen
Genres
Drama
Starring
Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • politics
  • class
  • identity
  • madness
Places
  • big city
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour2
Realism9
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity7
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
Henning Carlsen, Peter Seeberg
Starring
Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel, Knud Rex, Hans W. Petersen, Henki Kolstad, Roy Bjørnstad, Sverre Hansen
Music
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Cinematography
Henning Kristiansen
Runtime
112 min
Country
Denmark, Sweden, Norway
Languages
Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

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