Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
19951h 45mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Animation
Overview
Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?
Keywords
- surrealism
- servant
- institution
- school life
- correctional institution
- servant heiress relationship
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 1, 1995
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- AFRIKAANS, english, german, spanish
- Countries
- Germany, Japan, United Kingdom
- Production
- Film4 Productions,Pandora Film,Koninck Studios,Image Forum,Hot Property Films,Koninck Studios, Image Forum, Pandora Film, Hot Property Films, Film4 Productions
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt0113429