Hamsun's Hunger:
Just saw the Danish/Swedish/Norwegian co-production of Hunger from 1966.
Its been re-released on DVD recently.
This has to be one of the best film-adaptions of a novel I have ever seen.
Its also one of the best B&W movies I've ever seen.
Wonder IF Buk ever saw it - living in LA I would guess not.
It won the gold palm in Cannes in its day.
It was filmed in the old part of Oslo that, at the time, was just about the same as it was when Hamsun himself was wandering around there, crazed by starvation and full of mad dreams of his own greatness. (All the old buildings are gone now.)
This is a movie you can watch once a year.
The extras has a conversation between Hamsun's granddaughter & Paul Auster who actually hadn't read Hamsun before he saw the film.
Auster curiously mentions that Hunger wasn't available in English around 1967. Perhaps it was out of print or something.
See some snippets here:
and, of course, don't forget: (in the radio-speech at the end he supports the German occupation and urges all Norwegians to stop their resistance and accept the greatness of Germany.)