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House of the Sleeping Beauties

Original title: Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen
  • 20062006
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 39m
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5.2/10
341
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House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)
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Still mourning the loss of his beloved wife and daughter in a horrendous car accident, a reclusive sexagenarian decides to visit a rather peculiar and secretive brothel.Still mourning the loss of his beloved wife and daughter in a horrendous car accident, a reclusive sexagenarian decides to visit a rather peculiar and secretive brothel.Still mourning the loss of his beloved wife and daughter in a horrendous car accident, a reclusive sexagenarian decides to visit a rather peculiar and secretive brothel.
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
341
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
23,614
665
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    • Director
      • Vadim Glowna
    • Writers
      • Vadim Glowna
      • Yasunari Kawabata(novel "Nemureru bijo")
    • Stars
      • Vadim Glowna
      • Angela Winkler
      • Maximilian Schell
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    • Director
      • Vadim Glowna
    • Writers
      • Vadim Glowna
      • Yasunari Kawabata(novel "Nemureru bijo")
    • Stars
      • Vadim Glowna
      • Angela Winkler
      • Maximilian Schell
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    • 5User reviews
    • 24Critic reviews
    • 21Metascore
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    • Awards
      • 1 win

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    Vadim Glowna
    Vadim Glowna
    • Edmond
    Angela Winkler
    Angela Winkler
    • Madame
    Maximilian Schell
    Maximilian Schell
    • Kogi…
    Birol Ünel
    Birol Ünel
    • Herr Gold…
    Mona Glass
    • Sekretärin
    Marina Weis
    • Hausmädchen
    Benjamin Cabuk
    • Bänkelsänger
    Peter Luppa
    Peter Luppa
    • Prediger
    Maxime Foerste
    • Maxime
    Benjamin Seidel
    • Benni
    Raymond Tarabay
    Raymond Tarabay
    • Pall Bearer
    Jacqueline Le Saunier
    • Schlafende Schöne 1…
    Babet Mader
    • Schlafende Schöne 2…
    Maria Burghardt
    • Schlafende Schöne 3…
    Linda Elsner
    Linda Elsner
    • Schlafende Schöne 4…
    Sarah Swenshon
    • Schlafende Schöne 5…
    Isabelle Wackers
    • Schlafende Schöne 6…
    • Director
      • Vadim Glowna
    • Writers
      • Vadim Glowna
      • Yasunari Kawabata(novel "Nemureru bijo")
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    • Trivia
      Based on the book "Nemureru Bijo" by Yasunari Kawabata.
    • Quotes

      Edmond: An angel escorts me to eternal rest. It is done...

    • Connections
      Version of The House of the Sleeping Virgins (1968)
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      Performed by Christina Landshamer (as Christina Landshammer)

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    This is one of three films I know of about this particular subject-- brothels that cater to older men, allowing them to sleep next to, but not actually penetrate, beautiful young girls who have been willingly drugged to sleep. These movies are not so much based on any real-life perversion (although I wouldn't want to bet that SOMEBODY out there doesn't have this particular fetish), but they rather have much more literary origins in the form of a Japanese novel. There was an earlier Japanese version of this novel called "The Room" made by the notorious "pink" director of colorfully titled movies like "Lolita Vibrator Torture". I haven't seen "The Room", but it's rather notorious because the director chose to give a cameo role to a REAL-LIFE murderer/cannibal (a Japanese guy who killed and partially ate a Dutch co-ed in Paris, but was unaccountably released from a French asylum to become a ghoulish, half-assed celebrity in Japan). Obviously, THAT really overshadowed the movie, which has never really received an international release.

    More recently there was a 2011 English-language movie called "Sleeping Beauty" with Emily Browning, which is perhaps more accessible than this German movie since it is told from the point of a view of a beautiful young girl who works at this kind of brothel (it was also directed by a woman if that matters). This earlier movie lacks the nicest ass, I mean, nicest asset of the later movie in the form of Emily Browning, but it is generally more successful. As beautiful as Browning is and as much as I admire for being in such a movie, Maxmillian Schell is obviously a more experienced actor and really carries this German movie as a lonely morose widower who has lost his wife and daughter in an accident, but finds a strange solipsistic solace in a "house of sleeping beauties" and develops an interesting relationship with the house madame (Angela Winkler).

    It's not a perfect movie by any means. Even though it's German, it seems to be rather badly dubbed into German and it is given to strange voice-overs by minor characters (like the old man's maid). It has a lot of female nudity, but no real sex, so I can see why many would find it boring. But at times it achieves a kind of sweet, morose poetry, and it certainly achieves an aura of general weirdness. It's worth checking out, as is the slightly inferior, but much more accessible "Sleeping Beauty".
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    • Release date
      • November 14, 2008 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Germany
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Uyuyan Güzeller Evi
    • Filming locations
      • Berlin, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Atossa Film Produktion GmbH
      • Impact Films
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    • Budget
      • €1,450,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $4,509
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $1,535
      • Nov 16, 2008
    • Gross worldwide
      • $4,509
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 39 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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