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His destination is unknown.Ī heritage horsecar of the Oslo Tramway being used during the filming of Hunger

On a sudden impulse, Pontus takes a job as a crew member on an outbound freighter. Despite their mutual flirtations, nothing ever evolves between them. One hallucination revolves around Ylajali ( Gunnel Lindblom), an apparently refined woman he has met on the street. He applies for an accounting job but is rejected, and fails a physical exam to be a fireman because he wears glasses. He suffers humiliations which lead him to the edge of insanity. Hunger is constantly overwhelming Pontus and he drifts between hallucination and reality while struggling to survive. When he is unable to pay his rent, the landlady (Else Heiberg) evicts him. He often has the chance to make things better for himself, but his pride gets in the way, such as when he declines the much-needed help of a worried friend. He begs a bone for his fictitious dog, which he gnaws on secretly in an alley. He has written an article that a newspaper editor (Henki Kolstad) agrees to publish if he makes some corrections, but Pontus is too proud to accept an advance when offered, so he leaves elated but still hungry. Other money that falls into his hands he also gives away. He sells his waistcoat for a few cents, then gives the money to a beggar. He stands on a bridge, overlooking running water, writing but clearly starving. In 1890 Kristiania (Oslo), an impoverished and lonely writer named Pontus ( Per Oscarsson) comes to the city from the country. It is one of the ten films listed in Denmark's cultural canon by the Danish Ministry of Culture. Film historians suggest it was the first Danish film to gain serious international attention since the work of Carl Theodor Dreyer. With its stark focus on a life of poverty and desperation, the film is considered a masterpiece of social realism. Filmed on location in Oslo, it was the first film produced as a cooperative effort among the three Scandinavian countries. Hunger ( Danish: Sult, Swedish: Svält) is a 1966 black-and-white drama film directed by Denmark's Henning Carlsen, starring Swedish actor Per Oscarsson, and based upon the novel Hunger by Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun.