Torment (also known as Frenzy) was based on Ingmar Bergman's first screenplay and was directed by another great Swedish director Alf Sjoberg. The film charts the relationship between sensitive school boy Jan-Erik (Alf Kjellin) his sadistic overbearing school master nicknamed Caligula (Stig Jarrel) and his older girlfriend Bertha (Mai Zetterling). Jan-Erik discovers that he is not the only man Bertha is seeing is being stalked and harassed by a mysterious older man. A visit to B
The devil has a stye in his eye caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. She however can resist him and things get even turned around when Don Juan falls in love with her. The fact that he feels love for the first time now makes him even less attractive to her and Don Juan returns to hell.
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