Media gallery for
Thirst

Swedish poster for Thirst.

Bertil (Birger Malmsten) and Rut (Eva Henning).

In the book Images, Bergman praised Tengroth for her directorial contribution in the scene with an erotic tension between Viola (Birgit Tengroth) and Valborg (Mimi Nelson): ’I remember it clearly since I had never done anything like that. To build with small, almost unnoticeable, suggestive detail events became a special component in my future filmmaking.’

The cynical ballet teacher Henriksson (Naima Wifstrand) with her students Rut (Eva Henning) and Valborg (Mimi Nelson).

Rut (Eva Henning) and Valborg (Mimi Nelson).

Doctor Rosengren (Hasse Ekman) and his patient Viola (Birgit Tengroth) settle an argument.

Rut (Eva Henning) finds it hard to endure the strict ballet training and miss Henriksson’s (Naima Wifstrand) demands.

Rut’s (Eva Henning) former lover, Captain Raoul (Bengt Eklund) and her husband Bertil (Birger Malmsten).

The journey between Basel and Stockholm becomes turbulent for the married couple Bertil (Birger Malmsten) and Rut (Eva Henning).

Handwritten page from the shooting script for Thirst.

Front page from the shooting script for Thirst.

Handwritten page from the shooting script for Thirst.