The Hourglass Sanatorium

Directed by Wojciech Has
1973    2h 4mFantasy, Drama,
7.492%7.5
The film depicts its protagonist, Joseph (Jan Nowicki), traveling through a dream-like world, taking a dilapidated train 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.

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  • Jan NowickiJózef
  • Tadeusz KondratJakub
  • Irena OrskaJózef's Mother
  • Filip ZylberRudolf
  • Halina KowalskaAdela
  • Gustaw HoloubekDr. Gotard
  • Mieczysław VoitBlind Conductor
  • Bożena AdamekBianka
  • Ludwik BenoitSzloma
  • Henryk BoukołowskiFireman
  • Seweryn DaleckiTeodor
  • Julian JabczyńskiDignitary
  • Jerzy PrzybylskiMr. de Voss
  • Wiktor SadeckiDignitary
  • Janina SokołowskaNurse
  • Wojciech StandełłoJew Interlocutor in Restaurant
  • Tadeusz SchmidtOfficer
  • Szymon SzurmiejJewish Man Reciting False Qoheleth's Verses
  • Jan SzurmiejInstructive Jewish Man
  • Michał SzwejlichJewish Man by the Ladder

The Hourglass Sanatorium Ratings & Reviews

The Hourglass Sanatorium Trivia

The Hourglass Sanatorium was released on December 12, 1973.

The Hourglass Sanatorium was directed by Wojciech Has.

The Hourglass Sanatorium has a runtime of 2h 4m.

The Hourglass Sanatorium was produced by Urszula Orczykowska, Leopold Rene Nowak, Zygmunt Król, Andrzej Zielonka, Zygmunt Wójcik.

The film depicts its protagonist, Joseph (Jan Nowicki), traveling through a dream-like world, taking a dilapidated train 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 key characters in The Hourglass Sanatorium are Józef (Jan Nowicki), Jakub (Tadeusz Kondrat), Józef's Mother (Irena Orska).

The Hourglass Sanatorium is a Fantasy, Drama, Horror film.

The Hourglass Sanatorium has an audience rating of 9.2 out of 10.

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