House of the Sleeping Beauties
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Cast & Crew
Vadim Glowna
Mona Glass
Marina Weis-burgaslieva
Maximilian Schell
Angela Winkler
Birol Unel
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A wealthy businessman in his late 60s, Edmond, is haunted by the death, many years before, of his wife and daughter in a car accident. On the advice of an old friend, Kogi, he visits a mysterious 'house' for older men. In this establishment it is possible to spend an entire night in bed with beautiful, sleeping girls. The girls have consented to be drugged and won't awaken, and the men will feel a certain comfort from their warm embrace and perhaps a feeling of a temporary escape from age. Madame, the 'managing director' of the establishment, is almost motherly, yet very tight lipped, in her interactions with Edmond, but also in how she speaks of the young ladies in her charge. More and more Edmond surrenders to the unconscious seduction, youth and unpredictable sensuality of the drugged young women. As he drifts in and out of associations and memories of his past, bizarre hallucinations drive Edmond to seek escape in the arms of a young girl. By accident, Edmond observes Madame as she supervises the removal of what appears to be a corpse packed in a bag, thrown into a car and secretly taken away. Nevertheless Edmond returns again to the 'House of the Sleeping Beauties,' pondering his morality, his desires, and the purpose of his life. As he does so, he begins to lose his tenuous grasp on reality.
Director
Vadim Glowna
Crew
Lucie Bates
Ciro Cappellari
Michael Frenschkowski
Nikolaus Glowna
Vadim Glowna
Vadim Glowna
Marco Herten
Yasunari Kawabata
Thomas Knop
Charlie Lezin
Siggi Mueller
Jekatarina Oertel
Bernd Schaarmann
Raymond Tarabay
Peter Weber
Peter Weber
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Released in United States Fall November 14, 2008
Released in United States on Video April 21, 2009
Based on the novella "The House of Sleeping Beauties" written by Yasnuari Kawabata; published 1961.
Released in United States on Video April 21, 2009
Released in United States Fall November 14, 2008 (NY)
