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The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)

Directed by Wojciech Has

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Overview

A young man named Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father Jakob.  On his arrival, a sinister doctor informs him that his father had stopped breathing but hasn’t died yet, perhaps due to Josef’s arrival which may have halted time in the sanatorium.  Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.

Length 119 minutes

Actors

Jan Nowicki | Tadeusz Kondrat | Filip Zylber | Halina Kowalska | Irena Orska | Gustaw Holoubek | Mieczysław Voit | Bożena Adamek | Ludwik Benoit | Henryk Boukolowski | Seweryn Dalecki | Jerzy Przybylski | Julian Jabczyński | Wiktor Sadecki | Janina Sokołowska | Tadeusz Schmidt | Szymon Szurmiej | Jan Szurmiej | Michał Szwejlich | Paweł Unrug | Marek Barbasiewicz | Jerzy Bekker | Jerzy Braszka | Zofia Bajuk | Emir Buczacki | Romuald Drobaczyński | Andrzej Herder | Jolanta Hanisz | J. Jablonski | Jerzy Janeczek | Marek Jasiński | Elżbieta Kijowska | Leszek Kowalewski | Miroslawa Lombardo | Irena Malkiewicz | Boleslaw Mierzejewski | Wlodzimierz Nowak | Barbara Okonska-Kozlowska | Stanislaw Olczyk | Józef Łodyński | Czeslaw Piaskowski | P. Podgórski | Edward Radulski | Barbara Rogalska | W. Rutecki | Wladyslaw Sitko | Waldemar Gawlik | Jolanta Jackowska | Alicja Kluba | Leopold Rene Nowak | Jerzy Trela | Stanisław Tylczyński | Wojciech Standełło | Stefania Staszewska | Golda Tencer | Irena Izykowska