Torment

Torment (1944) starring Mai Zetterling, Stig Jarrel, Alf Kjellin. Strange Swedish film which has as its chief recommendation the fact that the screenplay marked Ingmar Bergman's debut. In the movie, a schoolboy (Kjellin) gets involved with a tobacco-shop girl (Zetterling), and somehow his sadistic Latin teacher (Jarrel) is involved with her. I found the film very odd, with a Swedish sensibility which didn't translate very well into English. (It's in Swedish, of course, with English subtitles.) Grade: B