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Thirst AKA Three Strange Lovers
(Törst)

Screening on Film
Directed by Ingmar Bergman.
With Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth.
Sweden, 1949, 35mm, black & white, 88 min.
Swedish with English subtitles.

The lives and loves of three very strange women: a hysterical young wife unable to bear children, a damaged widow under the eye of a grim psychiatrist, and a lesbian dancer with an eye for the widow. A truly weird trek, the film probes the psyche of shattered humanity.
 

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