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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) [N/A]

Release Date:
August 1, 1995

Original Title:
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

Alternate Titles:
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life
벤야멘타 학원

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Film4 Productions
Hot Property Films
Image Forum
Koninck Studios
Pandora Film

Production Countries:
Germany | Japan | United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
CA: 14A  CZ: 15+ 

Runtime: 104

Overview from TheMovieDB

Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?

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Art Direction:
Alison Riva

Casting:
Irene Lamb

Co-Director:
Weiser Quay

Costume Design:
Nicky Gillibrand

Director:
Stephen Quay
Timothy Quay

Director of Photography:
Nicholas D. Knowland

Editor:
Larry Sider

Foley Artist:
Jack Stew

Makeup Artist:
Caroline Clements
Suzie Zamit

Original Music Composer:
Lech Jankowski

Producer:
Karl Baumgartner
Keith Griffiths
Janine Marmot
Katsue Tomiyama

Production Design:
Jennifer Kernke

Production Manager:
Gina Carter

Special Effects:
Dave Crownshaw

Writer:
Timothy Quay
Stephen Quay
Alan Passes

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