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 her to set them free: the horrors have only begun.
Release Date: 17 November 2005Runtime:
Stars:
- Anna Geislerová
- Ctirad Götz
- Iva Littmanová
- Jan Tríska
- Jaroslav Dusek
- Jirí Krytinár
- Jirí Maria Sieber
- Josef Kaspar
- Katerina Ruzicková
- Katerina Valachová
- Martin Huba
- Miroslav Navrátil
- Pavel Liska
- Pavel Nový
- Stano Danciak
Director: Jan Svankmajer
