Movie

Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

1995★ 7.6

Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?

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Cast

Alice KrigeLisa Benjamenta

Mark RylanceJakob

Gottfried JohnHerr Benjamenta

Daniel SmithKraus

Joseph AlessiPepino

Jonathan StoneHebling

César SaratxuInigo

Peter LovstromJorgenson

Uri RoodnerSchilinski

Peter Whitfield

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