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.
| 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 |
| 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 |
By March 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 Read more »
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