A young man named Josef visits a dilapidated Sanatorium to see his father Jakob. On his arrival, a sinister doctor informs him that his father had stopped breathing but hasn't died yet, perhaps due to Josef's arrival which may have halted time in the sanatorium. Josef undertakes a strange journey through the many rooms of the sanatorium, each which conjures worlds composed of his memories, dreams and nightmares.
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Jan Nowicki Tadeusz Kondrat Irena Orska Halina Kowalska Gustaw Holoubek Mieczysław Voit Bożena Adamek Ludwik Benoit Henryk Boukołowski Seweryn Dalecki Julian Jabczyński Jerzy Przybylski Wiktor Sadecki Janina Sokołowska Tadeusz Schmidt Szymon Szurmiej Jan Szurmiej Michał Szwejlich Paweł Unrug Filip Zylber Marek Barbasiewicz Jerzy Bekker Jerzy Braszka Zofia Bajuk Emir Buczacki Romuald Drobaczyński Andrzej Herder Jolanta Hanisz J. Jablonski Jerzy Janeczek Marek Jasiński Elżbieta Kijowska Leszek Kowalewski Mirosława Lombardo Irena Malkiewicz Bolesław Mierzejewski Włodzimierz Nowak Barbara Okonska-Kozlowska Stanisław Olczyk Józef Łodyński Czesław Piaskowski P. Podgórski Edward Radulski Barbara Rogalska W. Rutecki Wladyslaw Sitko Waldemar Gawlik Jolanta Jackowska Alicja Kluba Leopold Rene Nowak Jerzy Trela Stanisław Tylczyński Wojciech Standełło Stefania Staszewska Gołda Tencer Irena Izykowska
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