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Word: provocatress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Torment, made in Sweden, the central character is a fine-minded, troubled boy in his late teens (Alf Kjellin). The villain is a pathologically cruel Latin teacher (Stig Jarrel). The provocatress of disaster is a loose girl of the town (Mai Zetterling) with whom the boy becomes involved, partly through sexual infatuation. But he is also concerned over her terror of a pitiless lover whom she dares not name but who, it becomes more & more obvious, is the sick teacher. Commencement time is approaching. The boy becomes ever less capable of study, ever more painfully the victim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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