Summary:
A horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum - absolute freedom versus control and punishment - within the context of a world that combines the worst of both. Jean Berlot, a young man subject to a nightmare of being forced into a straitjacket by two orderlies, is befriended by a marquis. At the marquis's estate, Jean witnesses a black Mass, buries someone alive, and is invited to try preventive therapy. He's willing to enter a sanatorium because he believes he can rescue a young woman from there who has told him that the real director and staff of the clinic are locked in the basement. Jean conspires with her to set them free: the horrors have only begun.
| Runtime: | 118 min |
|---|---|
| Production: | Programme MEDIA de la Communauté Européenne |
| Genre: | Horror |
| Countries: | Japan, Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| Language: | Czech |
| Home Release Date: | Feb 20, 2007 |
| Director | Credit |
|---|---|
| Jan Svankmajer | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
|---|---|
| Edgar Allan Poe | Story |
| Jan Svankmajer | Writer |
| Marquis de Sade | Story |
| Cast | Credit |
|---|---|
| Anna Geislerová | Charlotte |
| Ctirad Götz | Ostler |
| Iva Littmanová | Cast |
| Jan Svankmajer | Himself |
| Jan Triska | Marquis |
| Jaroslav Dusek | Dr. Murlloppe |
| Jirí Krytinár | Reciting Madman |
| Katerina Ruzicková | Cast |
| Katerina Valachová | Cast |
| Martin Huba | Dr. Coulmiere |
| Pavel Liska | Jean Berlot |
| Pavel Nový | Servant Dominic |
| Stano Danciak | Innkeeper |
| Producer | Credit |
|---|---|
| Dusan Kukal | Co-Producer |
| Helena Uldrichová | Co-Producer |
| Jaromír Kallista | Producer |
| Jaroslav Kucera | Co-Producer |
| Juraj Galvánek | Co-Producer |
| Shimon Shemtov | Assistant Producer |
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