Synopsis
A couple traveling across a war-ravaged Europe. A disintegrating marriage. A ballet dancer’s scarred past. Her friend’s psychological agony. Elliptically told in flashbacks and multiple narrative threads, Ingmar Bergman’s Thirst shows people enslaved to memory and united in isolation.
Cast
| Rut | Eva Henning |
| Bertil | Birger Malmsten |
| Viola | Birgit Tengroth |
| Doctor Rosengren | Hasse Ekman |
| Valborg | Mimmi Nelson |
| Raoul | Bengt Eklund |
| Astrid | Gaby Stenberg |
| Miss Henriksson | Naima Wifstrand |
Credits
| Director | Ingmar Bergman |
| Producer | Helge Hagerman |
| Screenplay | Herbert Grevenius |
| From the short story by | Birgit Tengroth |
| Cinematography | Gunnar Fischer |
| Editing | Oscar Rosander |
| Set designer | Nils Svenwall |
| Music | Erik Nordgren |
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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