The Man Who Sleeps
Apr 24 1974
•1h 17m
•Drama
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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Jacques Spiesser
Man
Ludmila Mikaël
Narrator
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