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After Darkness (1985)
Directed by Dominique Othenin-Girard, Sergio Guerraz
Overview
To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency through one on one contact. Free of the institution he continues to be haunted by dreams of a lost twin and chants the eerie phrase “Do I stand before the king?” It is the elder brother that seems doomed to lose himself in his brother’s insanity.
Length 104 minutes
Actors
John Hurt | Julian Sands | Victoria Abril | Pamela Salem | Gerd Heinz | Lise Ramu | William Jacques | Jacqueline Moore | Philippe Herzog | Michael Herzog | Peter Kristen | Nirmalu López-Bravo | Alexandra Cuypers | Soledad Aizpurua | Anne-Marie Delbart | Jean-Pierre Gos