The Man Who Sleeps

The Man Who Sleeps

Just to wait until there is nothing left to wait for.

1974•1h 17m•7.8/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.8/10(132)

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

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Production

Dovidis, SATPEC

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Jacques Spiesser

Jacques Spiesser

Man

Ludmila Mikaël

Ludmila Mikaël

Narrator

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