This mainly unknown adaptation of the novella HUNGER (Sult), by KNUT HAMSUN, was the first official Danish/Norwegian/Swedish Co-production that happened inside Scandinavian cinema, which was conducted by the director HENNING CARLSEN (Kattrona, 1965.). This extremely creative collaboration was presented as a Scandinavian New Wave film and earned the main actor PER OSCARSSON the award for best actor in Cannes, in the year 1966.