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...Torment" is the story of an 18 or 19 year old schoolboy who falls in love with a shopgirl of poor reputation. Their love brings about her regeneration as well as much happiness to them both. Unfortunately, the girl has been having an affair with a sadistic school teacher who has been regularly getting her drunk and subjecting her to the sort of depravities the demented, educated mind dreams up. Between tormenting the girl at night, and the classroom torment he gives the body during the day, the schoolteacher causes one death and one near-ruin among the young couple...
...simple and delicate story of "Torment" is given an over-all gentle treatment that, by usual film standards, could be said to drag at times. However, the producers deserve commendations for not playing up the sensational elements offered in the plot (leaving that, it would seem, to the able American press agents). "Torment" is the first intelligent filming of a non-idyllic adolescent love affair, I've seen...
...young people who played the boy and the girl in "Torment" when it was filmed in 1946 have since been called forth to bigger things. Mai Zetterling, the girl, has been seen lately in several J. Arthur Rank productions, and the boy, Alf Kjellin, has spent the last couple of years in Hollywood in the employment of David O. Stelznick--making no pictures, but having his named changed every so often. That is a pity, because he is an actor of something more than promise. Miss Zetterling doesn't really have a great deal to do in the film...
...plaza, holding their rosaries in pleading gesture. A delegation of demonstrators called on Bela Belassa, acting Hungarian consul general in New York. They were surprised when he said: "I agree with your protests. I am resigning as of this moment." Mrs. Belassa explained: "My husband has been living in torment . . . The hills of Buda and across the river the plains of Pest; surely we will miss them. But we have learned to love another country, and its liberty...
Bond of Blood. The second and last volume of The Diaries (the first appeared last year) reveals the crescendo of this torment, as it filled tuberculous Franz Kafka's own final years, up to his death in 1924, at 40. His father, a stolid and self-possessed businessman who was a living reproach to the introspective writer, was always at the center of his thoughts. He loved his father and admired him; he also feared and hated him. The "bond of blood too is the target of my hatred; the sight of the double bed at home, the used...