Fräulein Benjamenta ~ Institute Benjamenta '95
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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
Ce qu'on appelle la vie humaine (France)
Institut Benjamenta oder Dieser Traum, den man menschliches Leben nennt (Germany)
Directed by Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Original Music by Lech Jankowski
Starring Mark Rylance, Alice Krige, Gottfried John
Jakob von Gunten arrives at the Institute Benjamenta, a training school for domestic service, to enroll for its course--a single endlessly repeated lesson. He develops an unresolved and unarticulated attraction to the principal's beautiful wife, while attempting to penetrate the physical and mystical aspects of the Benjamenta's school.
Release Date: 23 August 1996 (USA)
Production Co: Image Forum, Koninck Studios, Pandora Filmproduktion
Ce qu'on appelle la vie humaine (France)
Institut Benjamenta oder Dieser Traum, den man menschliches Leben nennt (Germany)
Directed by Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Original Music by Lech Jankowski
Starring Mark Rylance, Alice Krige, Gottfried John
Jakob von Gunten arrives at the Institute Benjamenta, a training school for domestic service, to enroll for its course--a single endlessly repeated lesson. He develops an unresolved and unarticulated attraction to the principal's beautiful wife, while attempting to penetrate the physical and mystical aspects of the Benjamenta's school.
Release Date: 23 August 1996 (USA)
Production Co: Image Forum, Koninck Studios, Pandora Filmproduktion