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Not to be confused with ''Film/Tormented1960'' or, for that matter, ''Film/Tormented2009''.
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''Torment'' is a 1944 film from Sweden, directed by Alf Sjöberg.
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''Torment'' (Swedish title: ''Hets'') is a 1944 film from Sweden, directed by Alf Sjöberg.
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Jan-Erik striding off to downtown Stockholm, leaving the school and Caligula and everything behind.
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* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Jan-Erik striding off to downtown Stockholm, leaving the school and Caligula and everything behind. The scene is also notable for being the first piece of feature film directed by Ingmar Bergman, since Sjöberg didn't care for the ending.
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--> "The nomadic Laplanders never say in one place for very long."
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--> "The nomadic Laplanders never say stay in one place for very long."
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* CaptainObvious: Everyone gets a good lap out of the awful opening to Peterson's essay.
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* CaptainObvious: Everyone gets a good lap laugh out of the awful opening to Peterson's Petersson's essay.
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* SadistTeacher: Caligula is a monstrous tyrant--the students call him "Caligula", after all--who delights in mocking and humiliating the boys in his classes. Everyone hates him. The word "sadist" is actually used more than once.
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* AuthorTract: The doctor who attends Jan-Erik after his collapse gives a spiel straight from the pen of Ingmar Bergman about how awful Swedish schools are and how they terrorize the kids within.
* BittersweetEnding: Bertha's dead. Caligula has gotten Jan-Erik expelled, and Jan-Erik is estranged from his parents. But the headmaster tells Jan-Erik he'll help Jan-Erik get a job. And in the last meeting between them Caligula comes off as pathetic, begging for mercy, engaging in InelegantBlubbering about how he has no one. Jan-Erik leaves his teacher behind forever and strides away with new hope.
* CaptainObvious: Everyone gets a good lap out of the awful opening to Peterson's essay.
--> "The nomadic Laplanders never say in one place for very long."
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Some stark black-and-white photography in this film, like the scene where Jan-Erik runs into a plastered Bertha by the river. A single streetlight throws dramatic shadows as he escorts her up the stairs.
* DisposableWoman: Really the only purpose for Bertha in the story is to be a source of conflict, and then die.
* DreamSequence: Jan-Erik has a freaky dream where Caligula shows up and asks him Latin questions, followed by Bertha appearing and begging him for help.
* DrowningMySorrows: It's not clear just what Caligula does to Bertha, although physical abuse is certainly part of it. But she has to drink herself blind drunk every time after he leaves. She's never shown drinking when she's with Jan-Erik.
* LadyDrunk: Bertha is an unusually young version, but she hits the right notes, drinking herself into a bourbon-soaked stupor every time Caligula comes around. She drinks herself to death.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Jan-Erik striding off to downtown Stockholm, leaving the school and Caligula and everything behind.
* OneGenderSchool: Nothing but boys in Jan-Erik's school.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Presumably Caligula must have a real name, but we never learn it.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The headmaster goes on an angry rant against Caligula, calling him unfit to be a teacher and stating that terrifying students is no way to get them to learn. He does not do the logical thing and fire Caligula, however.
* SadistTeacher: Caligula is a monstrous tyrant--the students call him "Caligula", after all--who delights in mocking and humiliating the boys in his classes. Everyone hates him. The word "sadist" is actually used more thanonce.once.
* SexyDiscretionShot: Jan-Erik and Bertha kiss, they lower themselves down to the bed, and the camera pans over to the side table, showing Bertha's hand as she reaches out to turn off the lamp.
* ShoutOut: Bertha has a picture of Creator/ErrolFlynn on the wall in her little room.
* TeachersOutOfSchool: A particularly unpleasant version of this trope, when Jan-Erik runs into Caligula at the tobacconist's.
* TitleDrop: The headmaster calls Caligula "a tormentor of human beings."
* BittersweetEnding: Bertha's dead. Caligula has gotten Jan-Erik expelled, and Jan-Erik is estranged from his parents. But the headmaster tells Jan-Erik he'll help Jan-Erik get a job. And in the last meeting between them Caligula comes off as pathetic, begging for mercy, engaging in InelegantBlubbering about how he has no one. Jan-Erik leaves his teacher behind forever and strides away with new hope.
* CaptainObvious: Everyone gets a good lap out of the awful opening to Peterson's essay.
--> "The nomadic Laplanders never say in one place for very long."
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Some stark black-and-white photography in this film, like the scene where Jan-Erik runs into a plastered Bertha by the river. A single streetlight throws dramatic shadows as he escorts her up the stairs.
* DisposableWoman: Really the only purpose for Bertha in the story is to be a source of conflict, and then die.
* DreamSequence: Jan-Erik has a freaky dream where Caligula shows up and asks him Latin questions, followed by Bertha appearing and begging him for help.
* DrowningMySorrows: It's not clear just what Caligula does to Bertha, although physical abuse is certainly part of it. But she has to drink herself blind drunk every time after he leaves. She's never shown drinking when she's with Jan-Erik.
* LadyDrunk: Bertha is an unusually young version, but she hits the right notes, drinking herself into a bourbon-soaked stupor every time Caligula comes around. She drinks herself to death.
* OffIntoTheDistanceEnding: Jan-Erik striding off to downtown Stockholm, leaving the school and Caligula and everything behind.
* OneGenderSchool: Nothing but boys in Jan-Erik's school.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Presumably Caligula must have a real name, but we never learn it.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The headmaster goes on an angry rant against Caligula, calling him unfit to be a teacher and stating that terrifying students is no way to get them to learn. He does not do the logical thing and fire Caligula, however.
* SadistTeacher: Caligula is a monstrous tyrant--the students call him "Caligula", after all--who delights in mocking and humiliating the boys in his classes. Everyone hates him. The word "sadist" is actually used more than
* SexyDiscretionShot: Jan-Erik and Bertha kiss, they lower themselves down to the bed, and the camera pans over to the side table, showing Bertha's hand as she reaches out to turn off the lamp.
* ShoutOut: Bertha has a picture of Creator/ErrolFlynn on the wall in her little room.
* TeachersOutOfSchool: A particularly unpleasant version of this trope, when Jan-Erik runs into Caligula at the tobacconist's.
* TitleDrop: The headmaster calls Caligula "a tormentor of human beings."
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''Torment'' is a 1944 film from Sweden, directed by Alf Sjöberg.
The setting is a boys' school in Stockholm, which seems to have students ranging from small boys to young men in their late teens. The story centers on those boys in their late teens, and specifically Jan-Erik, the scion of a wealthy family. The bane of Jan-Erik's existence is the cruel, nasty Latin teacher, known only by his nickname "Caligula". Caligula delights in tormenting and humiliating his students. Sometimes it's Jan-Erik, and sometimes another student is the target of Caligula's bullying, but they all hate him.
One day after school Jan-Erik stops in the nearby tobacconist's shop, and chats in an innocent way with Bertha, the beautiful young cashier. Later, as Jan-Erik is walking along the banks of the river, he sees a young woman staggering down the steps, so drunk she can barely stand. It's Bertha. Bertha has been driven to drink by another man in her life, an older man who torments her in unspecified but apparently horrible ways. Bertha begs Jan-Erik from protection from the man. Predictably, Jan-Erik and Bertha become lovers.
Three guesses who the other man is.
The screenplay for ''Torment'' was written by a 26-year-old new hire to the film studio named Creator/IngmarBergman. It was his first film credit.
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* SadistTeacher: Caligula is a monstrous tyrant--the students call him "Caligula", after all--who delights in mocking and humiliating the boys in his classes. Everyone hates him. The word "sadist" is actually used more than once.
The setting is a boys' school in Stockholm, which seems to have students ranging from small boys to young men in their late teens. The story centers on those boys in their late teens, and specifically Jan-Erik, the scion of a wealthy family. The bane of Jan-Erik's existence is the cruel, nasty Latin teacher, known only by his nickname "Caligula". Caligula delights in tormenting and humiliating his students. Sometimes it's Jan-Erik, and sometimes another student is the target of Caligula's bullying, but they all hate him.
One day after school Jan-Erik stops in the nearby tobacconist's shop, and chats in an innocent way with Bertha, the beautiful young cashier. Later, as Jan-Erik is walking along the banks of the river, he sees a young woman staggering down the steps, so drunk she can barely stand. It's Bertha. Bertha has been driven to drink by another man in her life, an older man who torments her in unspecified but apparently horrible ways. Bertha begs Jan-Erik from protection from the man. Predictably, Jan-Erik and Bertha become lovers.
Three guesses who the other man is.
The screenplay for ''Torment'' was written by a 26-year-old new hire to the film studio named Creator/IngmarBergman. It was his first film credit.
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!!Tropes:
* SadistTeacher: Caligula is a monstrous tyrant--the students call him "Caligula", after all--who delights in mocking and humiliating the boys in his classes. Everyone hates him. The word "sadist" is actually used more than once.
