Summary
Writer-director Jan Svankmajer, who was 70-ish when he made the Czech-Slovak "Lunacy," introduces it as "a horror film with the perversity peculiar to that genre."
He borrows from the writings of the Marquis de Sade, Edgar Allan Poe (particularly "Premature Burial" and "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether") and Peter Weiss ("Marat/Sade") for his anything-goes parable of an asylum at Charenton where the patients and staff swap roles.See the full content of this document
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Lunacy
Jean Berlot (Pavel Liska) fal...
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