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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)

Drama | 104 minutes
3,30 20 votes

Genre: Drama / Fantasy

Duration: 104 minuten

Country: United Kingdom / Japan / Germany

Directed by: Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay

Starst: Alice Krige, Mark Rylance and Gottfried John

IMDb score: 7,0 (1.979)

Releasedate: 1 August 1995

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life plot

A film adaptation of Robert Walser's Swiss novel Jakob von Gunten about the surreal events in a training institute for servants. Jakob arrives at the Benjamenta Institute to become a butler. The institute is run by Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta, brother and sister. Together with seven others, Jakob gets absurd lessons in things like kinematics, balance and making circles. Johannes is unhappy, overbearing and uninvolved in the school. Lisa is beautiful, appears stable at first glance, but is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Strange surreal things happen. Jakob investigates and discovers the secrets of the school and of the Benjamenta family.

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