Movies: Haakon Smestad

Freely adapted from Knut Hamsun's Nobel Prize-winning novel "Hunger". A gifted artist goes through the same journey, hunger and pain in the Norwegian capitol Oslo as in 1890, but now during the Covid pandemic in the winter of 2021....

A medieval girl stands at the edge of a clifftop. Behind her, a gaunt castle, the Lord who has claimed her for his wife, and the cruel execution of her lover. Before her, cold dark waves. She leaps. As she falls through the waters, her long dress blo...