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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

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1995
1h 44m
English
Drama
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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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Cast

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Alice Krige
Lisa Benjamenta
Mark Rylance
Gottfried John
Herr Benjamenta
Daniel Smith
Joseph Alessi
Jonathan Stone
Csar Saratxu
Peter Lovstrom
Uri Roodner
Schilinski
Directed By: Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay
Written By: Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay, + 1 more

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