The Hourglass Sanatorium (Restored Edition)
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Certificate: 15
Running Time: 119 mins
Retail Price: £15.99
Release Date: 07/09/2015
Content Type: Movie
Synopsis:
A young man named Joseph (Jan Nowicki) visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father Jakob (Tadeusz Konrad). On his arrival, a sinister doctor informs him that his father had stopped breathing but hasn’t died yet, perhaps due to Joseph’s arrival which may have halted time in the sanatorium. Joseph undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each of which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares. Adapted from a collection of short stories by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, The Hourglass Sanatorium dispenses with traditional narrative, fashioning an audiovisual mosaic that blurs the line between reality and fantasy.
As in The Saragossa Manuscript, Wojciech Has fashions a cinematic universe composed with byzantine sets, hallucinatory images and a gallery of grotesque characters. However his magical-realist vision of pre-WW2 Poland is tinged with the sober consciousness of the violence that would follow and the recreation of Joseph’s childhood in a Jewish ghetto, foreshadowing the Holocaust
Special Features:
Video Tracks:
1.85:1 HDTV 1080p
Audio Tracks:
DTS-HD MA 2.0
Polish with English subs
Subtitle Tracks:
English
Directed By:
Wojciech Has
Written By:
Wojciech Has
Bruno Schulz (original story)
Starring:
Jan Nowicki
Tadeusz Kondrat
Irena Orska |
Soundtrack By:
Jerzy Maksymiuk
Director of Photography:
Witold Sobocinski
Editor:
Janina Niedzwiecka
Costume Designer:
Lidia Skarzynska
Jerzy Skarzynski
Production Designer:
Andrzej Plocki
Jerzy Skarzynski
Visual Effects:
Wlodzimierz Czachowski
Distributor:
Mr. Bongo
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