Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass

by Quay Brothers

Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass

Synopsis

A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run by a dubious Doctor Gotard who tells him that his father’s death, the death that has struck him in his country has not yet occurred, and that here they are always late by a certain interval of time of which the length cannot be defined. Jozef will come to realise that the Sanatorium is a floating world halfway between sleep and wakefulness and that time and events cannot be measured in any tangible form.

Cast

Tadeusz Janiszewski
Wioletta Kopańska
Andrzej Kłak
Zenaida Yanowsky
Allison Bell

Technical Data

Duration: 76 min
Language: Polish

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