Torment (1944 film)

Torment Swedish Hets is a Swedish film from 1944, directed by Alf Sjberg, with screenplay by Ingmar Bergman. It was originally released as Frenzy in the United Kingdom, although later releases have used the US title. The film, a tale of sex, passion and murder, was Bergmans actual directing debut, although the film was mainly directed by Sjberg.

OnJanuary 1943, Ingmar Bergman had been appointed by the Svensk Filmindustri SF as an assistant director and screenwriter on a oneyear initial contract. Bergman, who suffered illness and was hospitalized during the winter of 194243, wrote the screenplay for Torment, for which SF acquired the rights in July 1943. The Latin teacher Caligula is partly based on the Latin teacher Sjgren also played by Stig Jrrel in the 1942 film Lgor i dunklet by director Hasse Ekman.Filming, in which Ingmar Bergman took part as an assistant director, took place in two stages. The first stage, for interior scenes, took place fromFebruary toMarch 1944 at the Filmstaden studios north of Stockholm and the Sdra Latin High School, downtown Stockholm. The second stage, covering the exterior scenes, comprised only ten days in late May of the same year. In his second autobiography Images My Life in Film, Bergman describes the filming of the exteriors as his actual film directorial debut ........

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