In a Glass Cage

Local title
Klaasist puuris
Original title
Tras el cristal
Director
Agusti Villaronga
Country
Year
1986
Festival
29th Black Nights Film Festival
Programme
Genre

A doctor from a Nazi death camp who fled to Spain continues his horrific activities, only to find himself in an iron lung.

Klaus (Günter Meisner) is an ex-Nazi doctor whose war-time post in a concentration camp enabled him to commit the most appalling sex crimes against boys. After the war, living incognito in Spain, he again gives in to his depraved desires, until shame and despair drive him to an unsuccessful suicide attempt. Soon after, Angelo (David Sust) enters his life, a strange, handsome young man. A perverse relationship develops between Angelo and Klaus, becoming ever more macabre as Angelo reveals he has found diaries detailing his employer’s war-time activities. Words turn to deeds, and a new spate of child killings begin…

Inspired by the true story of 15th century French knight Gilles de Rais, this psychological thriller is considered Spanish filmmaker Agusti Villaronga’s Masterpiece.

Director
Agusti Villaronga
Screenwriter
Agusti Villaronga
Cast
Günter Meisner, David Sust, Marisa Paredes, Gisèle Echevarría, Imma Colomer
Producer
Teresa Enrich
Cinematographer
Jaume Peracaula
Production Design
Francesc Candini
Editing
Raúl Román
Music
Javier Navarrete
Production
TEM Productores
Runtime
Language
Subtitles
Director
Agusti Villaronga

Screenings

Hall 2 Kino Artis
Screening021721 / Klaasist puuris
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Screening053221 / Klaasist puuris
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Screening151520 / Klaasist puuris
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