Stephen and Timothy Quays Institute Benjamenta (1995), adapted from Robert Walsers novel Jakob von Gunten, is a surreal black-and-white fable set in a mysterious servant school where identity and submission blur into dream. With Mark Rylance and Alice Krige, the Quay brothers craft a haunting meditation on obedience, repression, and the subconscious.

Jakob (Mark Rylance) wants to be of service. Admitted to a peculiar school for servants run by domineering Johannes (Gottfried John) and his sorrowful sister Lisa (Alice Krige), Jakob gradually uncovers the mystical Institutes secrets and, by extension, those of life itself.

Presented in a new, director approved transfer, this striking live-action feature is an exquisitely realised anti-fairy tale, a fragile world shimmering with luminous energy and hypnotic beauty.

Från IMDB:
A young man goes to a school for servants run by a brother and sister. In the dreamlike and surreal world that he enters, how will his presence impact the people there and possibly even the school itself?

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Version: : Blu-Ray + DVD (import)

Språk : Afrikaans

EAN : 5035673010334

Distributor : British Film Institute

Inspelningsår : 1995

imdb-rating : 7

Längd : 1h 45m