Best of all is the carefully layered lead performance by Per Oscarsson.
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11/12/06
Hunger (1966)
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Reviews Counted: 3
Fresh: 3
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Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: A starving writer in 1890's Norway stumbles through the streets in search of his own fantasies. His articles are all refused by editors until he is left penniless and without food. Though he is forced to subsist on paper and dust from his... [More]
Starring: Per Oscarsson, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitte Federspiel
Director: Henning Carlsen
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Henning Carlsen's version of Knut Hamsun's novel plays out accordingly as harrowing tragedy of disintegration and grim comedy of intransigence.
08/22/06
The haunting characterization by Oscarsson is what gives this tale of misery its muscle and rawness.
08/14/06
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