House of the Sleeping Beauty

Away from every-day-life in Berlin which fades out in the afternoon entering darkness, Edmond, a man in his late sixties, visits by advise of an older friend a mysterious bordello, specialized for senile customers. In this place it is possible for these old men to spend time in bed with beautiful, sleeping girls a whole night through. The girls won‚Äôt awake, they are narcotized, and these old guys will feel warm and comfortable embracing the youth and the beauty of these women. Madame (60), the ‚Äòmanaging director‚Äô of the bordello, takes care almost mother-like of these old men as well as for their young ladies. Edmond surrenders to this unconscious seduction, juvenile virginity and unpredictable sensuality. In confrontation to his age, bedazzled by breath, scent and unguilty warmth of the young women, he glides into associations and memories of his past life. By hazard Edmond observes how Madame supervises a corpse packed in a bag, thrown into a car and secretly taken away. Nevertheless Edmond returns more and more often to the “House of the Sleeping Beauties”. But Madame resents Edmonds interrogation and occasional flirts, she never answers questions. Where reality doesn‚Äôt seem to exist it doesn‚Äôt take long until it sends with fatal complications the dreams of the old man to an end. But he is redeemed.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA