Jan Svankmajer

Lunacy is loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s stories The Premature Burial and The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether. The film is the latest provocation from surrealist master Jan Svankmajer (Little Otik) is inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. In nineteenth-century France a young man, Jean Berlot, is plagued by nightmares in which he is dragged off to a madhouse. ….