CERN CineClub - The Hourglass Sanatorium

Wednesday 6 Dec 2017, 20:00 → 22:04 Europe/Zurich

503/1-001 - Council Chamber (CERN)

The Hourglass Sanatorium

Directed by Wojciech Has

Poland, 1973, 124 min.

The film depicts its protagonist, Joseph, traveling through a dream-like world, taking a dilapidated train to visit his dying father in a sanatorium. When he arrives at the hospital, he finds the entire facility is going to ruin and no one seems to be in charge, or even caring for the patients. Time appears to behave in unpredictable ways, reanimating the past in an elaborate artificial caprice.

Original version Polish/Yiddish/Hebrew/Latin; English subtitles