original title:
L'enigma del sonno
directed by:
cast:
Michel Jouvet, Peretz Lavie, Claudio Bassetti, Elio Lugaresi, Ignazio Roiter, Pierluigi Gambetti, Giuseppe Plazzi
screenplay:
cinematography:
editing:
producer:
production:
country:
Italy
year:
2004
film run:
60'
format:
Betacam SP - b/w
aspect ratio:
4:3
sound:
Stereo
status:
Ready (09/11/2004)
festivals & awards:
A story told by a group of people whose lives have totally changed during sleep. A family who suffers from a rare insomnia that will lead them to death; a narcoleptic painter who lives half way between dream and reality; the night life of a sleepwalking boy; a life guard who stops breathing 600 hundred times each night; a narcoleptic ex boxer who falls asleep on the ring; a man without the R.E.M. phase. Their mutual intention is to discover an answer to their mysterious problems.