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Sanatorium pod klepsydra (1973)
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12 December 1973 (Poland) morePlot:
Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium... more | add synopsisAwards:
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Best Holocaust Fiction moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jan Nowicki | ... | Józef | |
| Tadeusz Kondrat | ... | Jakub - Józef's father | |
| Irena Orska | ... | Józef's mother | |
| Halina Kowalska | ... | Adela | |
| Gustaw Holoubek | ... | Dr. Gotard | |
| Mieczyslaw Voit | ... | Blind Conductor | |
| Bozena Adamek | ... | Bianka | |
| Ludwik Benoit | ... | Szloma | |
| Henryk Boukolowski | ... | Fireman | |
| Seweryn Dalecki | ... | Teodor | |
| Julian Jabczynski | ... | Dignitary | |
| Jerzy Przybylski | ... | Mr. de Voss | |
| Wiktor Sadecki | ... | Dignitary | |
| Janina Sokolowska | ... | Nurse | |
| Wojciech Standello | ... | Jew Interlocutor in Restaurant |
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The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (USA)The Sandglass (International: English title) (informal title)
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124 minCountry:
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Color (Eastmancolor)Sound Mix:
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Wytwornia Filmow Fabularnych, Lódz, PolandFun Stuff
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It is amazing that so many people can see this film without realizing that its subtext and central subject is the Shoah (Holocaust); its unspeakable and incomprehensible enormity in the mind, especially in Communist Poland where the memory of that history was somewhat suppressed. This is really the best fictional treatment of the Shoah on film, because of its indirection in dealing with this terrible subject. It is simultaneously an adaptation of a literary work by a victim of the Nazis, Bruno Shulz, who explored the world and imagery of the unconscious, fantastic and dreams like no other. It is probably the best evocation of this world ever committed to film. The film will be tedious to some, but those willing to immerse themselves in it will emerge, like the protagonist, forever changed by the experience. By the way, this film is NOT set in prewar Poland, but in some indeterminate time after the war. Where Shulz was the prewar victim haunted by memories of his father and childhood, the protagonist in this film is the postwar survivor haunted by the fate of his own father's generation - and world.