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Lunacy

Šílení

2005

A troubled young man falls under the sway of a sinister marquis who lures him into an asylum for a bizarre course of preventive therapy, where nothing and no one is what it seems. Jan Švankmajer's grotesque, surreal horror inspired by Poe and Sade.

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