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A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man might have predicted.
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- Director
- Jan Švankmajer
- Written by
- Marquis de Sade, Jan Švankmajer
- Produced by
- Jaromír Kallista
- Cinematographer
- Juraj Galvánek
- Editor
- Marie Zemanová
- Origin country
- Czech Republic
- Production countries
- Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Slovakia
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Language
- Czech
- TMDB
- 6.7/10 (77 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 64% Fresh
- Metacritic
- 63/100
- IMDb
- 7.1/10 (4,017 votes)
Cast
Pavel Liška
Jean Berlot
Jan Tříska
Marquis
Anna Geislerová
Charlota
Jaroslav Dušek
Dr. Murlloppe
Martin Huba
Dr. Coulmiere
Karel Heřman
Feeble-minded Warden
Pavel Nový
Servant Dominik
Stano Dančiak
Innkeeper
Jiří Krytinář
Reciting Madman
Kateřina Růžičková
Asylum Inmate
Iva Littmanová
Asylum Inmate
Katerina Valachová
Asylum Inmate
Josef Kaspar
Insane Erotomaniac
Miroslav Navrátil
Dream Warden
Jiří Maria Sieber
Dream Warden
Ctirad Götz
Ostler
Milan David
Naked Madman / Homeless
Michael Hoffbauer
Naked Madman
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