Günter Meisner
Klaus
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- During the Second World War, Doctor Klaus tortured, abused and killed deported boys. When the conflict comes to an end, a suicide attempt obliges him to remain connected to an iron lung. The appearance of a boy offering to take care of him establishes a sordid relationship of desire, vengeance and personality appropriation between the two of them.
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Plot. Klaus, a former Nazi doctor, practiced horrific, sadomasochistic experiments on children during World War II. After the war, he goes into exile in a remote village in Catalonia, where he continues to rape and torture young boys. He kills his latest victim with a blow to the head, taking photographs of the crime.
Aug 6, 1986 · In a Glass Cage: Directed by Agustí Villaronga. With Günter Meisner, David Sust, Marisa Paredes, Gisèle Echevarría. A former Nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.
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- Drama, Horror
- Agustí Villaronga
- 1986-08-06
After a gruesomely botched suicide attempt leaves Klaus imprisoned in an iron lung, he gives up his sickening pastime. But when a mysterious teenager named Angelo (David Sust) arrives at his home...
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- Günter Meisner
- Agustí Villaronga
- Mystery & Thriller
In a Glass Cage (Agustín Villaronga) is a film which has, over the years since its release in 1986, garnered a notorious semi-underground reputation as one of the most emotionally wrenching psychological horror films ever made.
Oct 28, 2011 · In a Glass Cage is distinguished by a set and costume design that complement the fun house mirror psychology of the film itself. Griselda slinks around the mansion in a blood red robe momentarily cutting the house oxygen to stop her husband's breathing, playing with the notion of killing him.
- Agusti Villaronga
- David Sust
Detailing a paralyzed former nazi's encounter with a mysterious local teenage boy horribly gone wrong, In a Glass Cage has no filter in showing the unspeakable and the macabre, while providing a microscopic look into the dynamics of such perversion, and it definitely serves as a formidable reminder of such dangerous combination.
Mar 24, 1989 · Stylistically compelling, morally ambiguous, and profoundly unsettling, this Spanish psychodrama from writer-director Agustin Villaronga stands beside Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo as one of cinema's most unflinching depictions of human depravity.
