HOURGLASS SANATORIUM
Title
HOURGLASS SANATORIUM
SKU
4889154
Catalogue No.
MRBG4BR
UPC
711969121520
Label
Release Date
Aug 7, 2015
Year Produced
1973
Format
BD
Packaging
Blu-ray Case
No. of Discs
1
Region Coding
A
TV Standard
1080p
Running Time
119
Weight
0.335
Price
$26 inc. GST
Ships From
Melbourne, AU
Blu-Ray pressing. Restored version of Has' psychedelic masterpiece, available for the first time on Blu-ray. Adapted from a collection of short stories by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, The Hourglass Sanatorium dispenses with traditional narrative, fashioning an audiovisual mosaic that blurs the line between reality and fantasy. As in the Saragossa Manuscript, Wojciech Has fashions a cinematic universe composed with byzantine sets, hallucinatory images and a gallery of grotesque characters. However his magical-realist vision of Joseph's childhood in a Jewish ghetto, foreshadowing the Holocaust. Full frame-by-frame restoration and fully re-mastered soundtrack, funded by the Polish Arts Council. Polish with English Subtitles.