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In 1971, filmaker Peter Robinson and a small crew entered a world of anarchic madness and healing compassion unlike any other. The resulting film, ASYLUM, records their seven week stay in radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing's controversial Archway Community - a London row-house where the inmates literally run the asylum. Laing's conviction that schizophrenics can only heal their shattered 'self' where they're free and yet are held reponsible for their actions, ahallenged patients, doctors and, in ASYLUM's incredible document, the filmmakers, to live communally and peacefully.
'I think it's possible to get lost here,' offers one of the uneasy medical volunteers plunged into Archway's tribal society. Fiercely intellectual David demands attention by engaging anyone and everyone in an unending and increasingly menacing illogical disourse. Consumed by the emotional need that has claimed her sanity, beautiful, los Julia regresses to infancy. In one astonishing scene, a patient's father blithely explains that he has hired a girl to date his nearly catatonic son. As Archway's residents are 'explored but not exploited by this enterprising but humanly decent film.'

Eine abgelegene Anstalt für Geisteskranke. Hier bewirbt sich der junge Dr. Martin für eine freie Stelle. Die Aufnahmeprüfung gestaltet sich jedoch als abenteuerlich - sie besteht darin, sich von vier verschiedenen Wahnsinnigen jeweils eine Geschichte erzählen zu lassen und so den ehemaligen Anstaltsleiter zu erkennen. Wenn er das schafft, dann bekommt er die Stelle. Zu spät muss er erkennen, dass er gefangen ist - im Irrgarten des Schreckens...

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Actor Britt Ekland, Robert Powell, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Peter Cushing
Director Roy Ward Baker
Label KINO LORBER
 
Languages English
Content DVD
FSK / age rating from age 16
Publication date 20.06.2000
Genre Horror
 
Length 95 minutes
Audio English
Screen 1.33:1
Year of production 1972
Original title Asylum
Region code 1
Version US Version
 

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  • Mit einem Wort:

    Written on 15. August 2010 by firetrain.

    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    WELTKLASSE!
    (Top restauriert, uncut... Der Beste Episoden-Horrorfilm aller Zeiten!)

  • Tolle Erzählung

    Written on 05. August 2024 by Butterfly.

    This customer review refers to a alternative version.

    Mag den Film. Tolle Story über einen, welcher in einer Irrenanstalt herausfinden muss, wer der leitende Chef der Anstalt unter den Irren ist. Super toller schwarzer Humor in verschieden Erzählungen über die Irren, wieso diese in der Anstalt sind. 4 Sterne und Daumen hoch von mir!

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