LA CLEPSYDRE

English description

English title: THE HOUR-GLASS SANATORIUM Original title: SANATORIUM POD KLEPSYDRA Directed by : Wojciech J. Has With : Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska Poland, 1973, PAL, 4/3 - 124 mn zone 2, color, 2.0 Original version with French subtitles. The film is an adaptation of the novel written by Bruno Schulz "Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass". Joseph (Jan Nowicki) travels through a dream-like world and takes a dilapidated train in order to visit his dying father in a sanatorium. When he arrives at the hospital, he finds the entire facility is going to ruin and no one seems to be in charge or even caring for the patients. Time appears to behave in unpredictable ways, reanimating the past in an elaborate artificial caprice. THE HOUR-GLASS SANATORIUM won the Jury Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.