Institute Benjamenta : or This dream people call human life / Channel Four Films with the participation of British Screen presents a Koninck production ; in co-production with Image Forum and Pandora Film ; a Zeitgeist Films release ; producers, Keith Griffiths, Janine Marmot ; scenario, Alan Passes, Brothers Quay ; realisation, The Brothers Quay.
Publisher:
Kino On Video,
Copyright Date:
2000
Description:
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Mark Rylance, Gottfried John, Daniel Smith, Alice Krige. Based on the novella Jakob von Gunten and other texts of Robert Walser. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1995. A foreign film (Great Britain, Germany). Special features: theatrical trailer; interview with the Brothers Quay; On the set of Institute Benjamenta.
Summary:
A hesitant man named Jakob von Gunten arrives at a boarding school for the training of servants, where the curriculum consists of one endlessly repeated lesson: self-negation. The students' only goal to become insignificant.
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