Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Genres Animation
Directors Stephen Quay
Writer Stephen Quay
Country United Kingdom
Votes 104
IMDBID tt33069917
Runtime 75
Languages Polish
Release 11 Apr, 2025
A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run by a dubious Doctor Gotard who tells him that his father's death, the death that has struck him in his country has not yet occurred, and that here they are always late by a certain interval of time of which the length cannot be defined. Jozef will come to realize that the Sanatorium is a floating world halfway between sleep and wakefulness and that time and events cannot be measured in any tangible form.
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