Hunger

In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment he is delighted and the next he curses everybody. Nevertheless, all the time he manages to maintain human dignity and pride.

Hunger is a 1968 drama biography movie directed by Henning Carlsen, starring Birgitte Federspiel, Gunnel Lindblom, Per Oscarsson. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.7/10 from 3,586 votes and runs 1h 52m.