Description

Józef visits his dying father at a remote mental institutions, where time itself doesn’t seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories become indistinguishable.

Adapted from a selection of short stories from Polish-jewish writer Bruno Schultz, Wojciech J. Has’s masterpiece of surrealist Polish cinema is a phantasmagoric look at the collective trauma of the Holocaust.

FEATURES:
Region A Blu-ray
Introduction Notes on The Hourglass Sanatorium by Annette Insdorf, Film Professor at Columbia University, and author of books including Intimations: The Cinema of Wojciech Has
Post Screening Notes on The Hourglass Sanatorium by Annette Insdorf
Discussion on The Hourgalss Sanatorium with Sebastian Smoliński, Film Critic
Written Essay by Samm Deighan, writer
Written Essay by Annette Insdorf
English subtitles