Synopsis
Ingmar Bergman’s first produced screenplay was for the great Swedish filmmaker Alf Sjöberg’s Torment, a dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior, Widgren, terrorized by his sadistic Latin teacher. When Widgren falls for a troubled local girl, Bertha, he finds himself caught up even further in a web of emotional mind games.
Cast
| Caligula | Stig Järrel |
| Jan-Erik Widgren | Alf Kjellin |
| Bertha Olsson | Mai Zetterling |
| Headmaster | Olof Winnerstrand |
| Pippi | Gösta Cederlund |
| Sandman | Stig Olin |
| Teacher | Gunnar Bjornstrand |
Credits
| Director | Alf Sjöberg |
| Producer | Harald Molander and Victor Sjostrom |
| Assistant director | Ingmar Bergman |
| Screenplay | Ingmar Bergman |
| Cinematography | Martin Bodin |
| Music | Hilding Rosenberg |
| Set designer | Arne Åkermark |
From the Current
Eclipse Series 1:
Early Bergman
by
Mar 26, 2007
Torment (1944) marked the official emergence of Ingmar Bergman onto the world cinema stage. Though directed by his renowned compatriot Alf Sjöberg, it was the twenty-four-year-old Bergman’s big break as a screenwriter and, in its themes and preoccupations, is a remarkably precocious precursor . . .
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