Drama ·Fantasy · France · 1987 · 1h 40m

Life Is a Dream

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Director

Cast

Sylvain Thirolle as Roch Leibovici as Bénédicte Sire as Jean-Bernard Guillard as Jean-François Lapalus as

Crew

Jacques Bouquin — Director of Photography Martine Bouquin — Editor Rudolfo Wedeles — Editor Jorge Arriagada — Original Music Composer Raúl Ruiz — Writer Pedro Calderón de la Barca — Writer

Synopsis

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.

Key Collaborators

Raúl Ruiz Director Jacques Bouquin Director of Photography Martine Bouquin Editor Rudolfo Wedeles Editor Jorge Arriagada Original Music Composer Raúl Ruiz Writer Pedro Calderón de la Barca Writer

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