Rent Institute Benjamenta (1995)
3.7 of 5 from 63 ratings
1h 44min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Jakob (Mark Rylance) wants to be of service. Admitted to a peculiar school for servants run by domineering Johannes (Gottfried John) and his sorrowful sister Lisa (Alice Krige), Jakob gradually uncovers the mystical Institute's secrets and, by extension, those of life itself.
- Actors:
- Mark Rylance, Alice Krige, Gottfried John, Daniel Smith, Joseph Alessi, Jonathan Stone, César Sarachu, Peter Lovstrom, Uri Roodner, Peter Whitfield
- Directors:
- Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
- Producers:
- Karl Baumgartner, Keith Griffiths, Janine Marmot, Katsue Tomiyama
- Writers:
- Alan Passes, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Robert Walser
- Aka:
- Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Drama
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 24/05/2010
- Run Time:
- 104 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Inside the Institute: an in-between world (2010, 31 mins): journey into the film's creation with the Quays, Mark Rylance and Alice Krige
- Institute Benjamenta trailer (1995,1 min)
- Eurydice, She so Beloued (Quay Brothers, 2007,11 mins): Orpheus' attempt to rescue his dead lover Eurydice from Hades
- Songs for Dead Children (Quay Brothers, 2003, 24 mins): Steve Martland's Street Songs realised in eerily beautiful animation
- The Comb (The Quay Brothers, 1990,18 mins): the ingenious animated short which paved the way for the Quays' first feature
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