1944 · drama · thriller
Torment
Directed by Alf Sjöberg1h 41m1944
Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik's heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway. When Caligula learns that Jan-Erik is having an affair with Bertha, he begins to torture his student psychologically. He reserves his cruelest behavior for Bertha, however, which results in a tragic turn of events.
Our read: Torment (1944) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
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