Swedish Film Marathon: 14 Swedish films from Tuesday morning till Wednesday afternoon (June 30)

HETS (Torment, Alf Sjöberg, 1944)

After the screenplay of Ingmar Bergman, Alf Sjöberg directed an intensive and gripping drama about a sadistic teacher who harasses his pupils and even drives a female high-school graduate to death. While the students endure the suffering, their parents do not call the teaching methods into question. The first filmed screenplay of Ingmar Bergman is stylistically modeled on German Expressionism and film noir.