Your dead dad's still dying in a puppet dimension where clocks are decorative suggestions.
Jozef embarks on a journey via a ghostly train to visit his dying father in a remote Galician sanatorium. Upon arrival, he discovers that the sanatorium exists in a realm where time is distorted—his father's death has not yet occurred, as time here lags behind the outside world by an undefined interval. Jozef's experiences become increasingly fragmented and dreamlike as he confronts various manifestations of his father, each representing different aspects of their relationship and his own psyche.
Practical Effects
Hand-sculpted puppets that look like they've seen things
Cinematography
Every frame a rotting Victorian postcard come alive
Direction
Twin brothers who've spent 40 years perfecting unease
Director
Timothy Quay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bruno Schulz's original 1937 novella was unfinished—Nazis murdered him before completion, making every adaptation inherently haunted by absence.
The Quays filmed in Lodz using Polish actors speaking phonetic English, then stripped the dialogue entirely—creating a film about failed communication that literally cannot be understood verbally.
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