Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life ( Institute Benjamenta )

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (Blu-Ray) (*)

$33.99

Alternate Title: Institute Benjamenta
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Fantasporto Awards
Stockholm Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
104 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1995 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Stephen Quay
Timothy Quay

Written By:
Alan Passes
Stephen Quay

Actors:
Mark Rylance ..... Jakob
Alice Krige ..... Lisa Benjamenta
Gottfried John ..... Herr Benjamenta
Daniel Smith ..... Kraus
Joseph Alessi ..... Pepino
Jonathan Stone ..... Hebling
César Sarachu ..... Inigo (as Cesar Sarachu)
Peter Lovstrom ..... Jorgenson
Uri Roodner ..... Schilinski
Peter Whitfield ..... Null

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***This is a Dual Format Edition, which contains both Blu-Ray & DVD versions*** Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?

A young man enrols at a dilapidated boarding school for trainee servants, only to discover that all the lessons being taught are exactly the same! Over time, he becomes entangled in the strange lives of the students and headmasters alike. British animators The Brothers Quay turn their hand to live-action for the first time, resulting in this curiously fascinating film.

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