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The Man Who Sleeps

Name: The Man Who Sleeps
Director: Bernard Queysanne
Genre: Drama
Released: 1974
Rating: 7.8
Cast: Jacques Spiesser, Ludmila Mikaël

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

1974 · Directed by Bernard Queysanne · 78 min · Drama · 13 frames

Tagline

Just to wait until there is nothing left to wait for.

Crew

Screenplay: Georges Perec
Cinematography: Bernard Zitzermann
Edited by: Andrée Davanture, Agnès Molinard
Produced by: Pierre Neurrisse

Cast

Jacques Spiesser as Man
Ludmila Mikaël as Narrator

Production

Country: France, Tunisia
Language: French
Studios: Dovidis, SATPEC
Themes: depression, nihilism, surrealism, existentialism, anomie

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