The Hourglass Sanatorium Orson Welles Orson Welles

Orson Welles

who becomes the subject of great interest for his government superiors

Archive interview with director Bernardo Bertolucci

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The Hourglass Sanatorium Orson Welles Orson WellesJzef visits his dying father at a remote mental institutions, where time itself doesnt seem to exist, and the line between dreams and memories become indistinguishable. Adapted from a selection of short stories from Polish jewish writer Bruno Schultz, Wojciech J. Hass masterpiece of surrealist Polish cinema is a phantasmagoric look at the collective trauma of the Holocaust. directed by: Wojciech Has starring: Jan Nowicki, Tadeusz Kondrat, Irena Orska,