Lunacy (Sílení) (2005)

7.4	Rating (58 ratings)
7.3	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Jan Svankmajer

Starring (View all)

Jan Triska
Marquis

Pavel Liska
Jean Berlot

Anna Geislerová
Charlota

Martin Huba
Dr. Coulmiere

Jaroslav Dusek
Dr. Murlloppe

Pavel Nový
Servant Dominik

Stano Danciak
Innkeeper

Jirí Krytinár
Reciting Madman

Written by (View all)

Edgar Allan Poe
(story) and

Marquis de Sade
(story)

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Description: A horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum - absolute freedom versus control and punishment - within the context of a world that combines the worst of both. Jean Berlot, a young man subject to a nightmare of being forced into a straitjacket by two orderlies, is befriended by a marquis. At the marquis's estate, Jean witnesses a black Mass, buries someone alive, and is invited to try preventive therapy. He's willing to enter a sanatorium because he believes he can rescue a young woman from there who has told him that the real director and staff of the clinic are locked in the basement. Jean conspires with he ... (more)

Release date: 17 November 2005