The Hourglass Sanatorium -- Has (1973)

Woyciech Has - Sanatorium pod Klepsysdra (The Hourglass Sanatorium) (1973)



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From Wikipedia:



The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (also released as The Sandglass)

is the English title of Sanatorium Pod Klepsydra,

a film released in 1973, directed by Wojciech Has.



Has, who became well known for his surreal epic

The Saragossa Manuscript, adopted the story collection

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

(Sanatorium Pod Klepsydra) by Bruno Schulz for the screenplay

of this demanding film. The film presents a poetic,

visually refined "journey through the convolutions

of time" as experienced by the protagonist, Joseph (Jan Nowicki).

The young Joseph finds himself travelling through a dream-like

world, taking a dilapidated train to visit his dying father

Jacob (Josef Kondrat) in a sanatorium. When he arrives at

the hospital, he finds the entire facility is going to ruin

and no one seems to be in charge, or even caring for the patients.

Time appears to behave in unpredictable ways,

reanimating the past in an elaborated artificial caprice.



Among the many occurrences in this visually potent phantasmagoria;

Joseph re-enters childhood episodes with his eccentric father

(who lives surrounded by birds), is arrested by a mysterious

unit of soldiers, reflects on a girl Bianca (Bozena Adamek)

he knew in his boyhood and brings historic wax figures to life

with names from a postage stamp album. Throughout his strange

journey, an ominous blind train conductor reappears like

a death figure.



In transferring the literary source to film, Has also added a

series of reflections on the Holocaust that were not present

in the original novel, reading Schulz's prose through the

prism of the author's tragic death during World War II and

the demise of the world he described. This approach has been

considered an excessive indulgence by some critics, inspired

creative license by others. The film won the Jury Prize at

Cannes in 1973.



Director: Wojciech Has

Music: Jerzy Maksymiuk

Cinematography: Witold Sobocinski



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