Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass
by Quay Brothers
A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run by a dubious Doctor Gotard who tells him that his father’s death, the death that has struck him in his country has not yet occurred, and that here they are always late by a certain interval of time of which the length cannot be defined. Jozef will come to realise that the Sanatorium is a floating world halfway between sleep and wakefulness and that time and events cannot be measured in any tangible form.
Tadeusz Janiszewski
Wioletta Kopańska
Andrzej Kłak
Zenaida Yanowsky
Allison Bell
Scenario: Quay Brothers
Realisation: Quay Brothers
Montage: Quay Brothers
Puppets, Decors: Quay Brothers
Animation Cinematography: Quay Brothers
Music & Soundscapes: Timothy Nelson
Additional Music: Alfred Schnittke
Live-action Cinematography: Bartosz Bieniek PSC
Casting Director: Paulina Krajnik PCDG
Production Designer: Agata Trojak
Costume Designer: Dorothée Roqueplo
Make-up Artist: Anna Buttny
Sound: Joakim Sundström, Quay Brothers
Re-recording Mixer: Michał Fojcik
Digital Colour Grading: Michał Herman
First AD: Małgorzata Małysa
Line Producer: Małgorzata Małysa
Producers: Lucie Conrad, Izabella Kiszka-Hoflik
Executive Producers: Keith Griffiths, Mia Bays
Co-Producers: Viola Fügen, Michael Weber, Tobias Pausinger
Associate Producers: Marlena Łukasiak, Marta De Zuniga
International title: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
Duration: 76 min
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Format: 24 fps
Sound: 5.1
Year: 2024
Original language: Polish
Countries of production: United Kingdom, Poland, Germany
Presented by: BFI
In association with: Telewizja Polska S.A.
Production Companies: Koninck Studios SpK Galicia Limited, IKH Pictures Production SP Z O.O.
Co-production Companies: The Match Factory, Adam Mickiewicz Institute/Culture.pl
Supported by: Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg
