The Hourglass Sanatorium

Józef visits the Hourglass Sanatorium looking for his father. Though the old man has already died, here – in the Gothic-like castle full of empty corridors and chambers covered with spider webs – the reallife death is not yet decided. Józef will take off on an extraordinary, oneiric journey into the past, back into the places of his childhood – to his father’s shop, Jewish shtetl and the world of boyish dreams and teenage phantasmagorias. A visionary and exquisitely plastic poetic reflection on time, passing and irreversibility of death.

Selected awards
Festival de Cannes 1973: Jury Prize

Trieste Science-Fiction Film Festival 1974: Golden Asteroid

PFFF in Gdansk 1974: award for art direction (Jerzy Skarżyński and Andrzej Płocki)

Credits

Reżyseria

Wojciech Jerzy Has

written by

Wojciech Jerzy Has

director of photography

Witold Sobociński

music

Jerzy Maksymiuk

production design

Jerzy Skarżyński, Andrzej Płocki

costume design

Lidia Skarżyńska, Jerzy Skarżyński

make-up

Halina Ber, Anna Śmiech

sound

Janusz Rosół

edited by

Janina Niedźwiecka

cast

Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska, Halina Kowalska, Gustaw Holoubekproduction Zespół Filmowy Silesia

production manager

Urszula Orczykowska

Obsada

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