House of the Sleeping Beauties (2006)

Original title

Das Haus der schlafenden Schönen

Directed by

Vadim Glowna

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aging man visits a brothel where elderly clients sleep next to drugged young women. He forms a bond with the woman who runs the establishment and reflects on his own mortality.

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What happens

The House of Sleeping Beauties is a German drama feature film starring and directed by Vadim Glowna. Released in 2006, the film is the third film adaptation of the 1961 novella The House of the Sleeping Beauties (眠れる美女, Nemureru Bijo) by Japanese Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata. Other leading cast are Maximilian Schell and Angela Winkler. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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