Brother of Sleep (1995)
- Original title
- Schlafes Bruder
- Directed by
- Joseph Vilsmaier
- Genre
- drama film, musical film, romance film
- Country
- Germany
- Runtime
- 2h 07m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 35 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
The film is about a young musical prodigy in a small Alpine village during the early 1800s. His extraordinary talent isolates him from the community and sets him on a doomed path of obsession with a woman.
melancholicslow-burnintensetragicvisually lushbleakemotionalromantic
What happens
Brother of Sleep (German: Schlafes Bruder) is a 1995 German film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier and based on the novel Schlafes Bruder by Austrian writer Robert Schneider. It was chosen as Germany's official submission to the 68th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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