The Man Who Sleeps

1h 17m
Drama
7.8

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

Cast

Jacques Spiesser
Man
Ludmila Mikaël
Narrator

Crew

Bernard Queysanne
Director
Georges Perec
Screenplay, Original Story
Agnès Molinard
Editor
Andrée Davanture
Editor
Bernard Zitzermann
Cinematography
Jacques Lederer
First Assistant Director
Jean-Pierre Poussin
Second Assistant Director
Pierre Neurrisse
Producer
Paul Bertault
Sound Mixer
Jean-Pierre Ruh
Sound
Philippe Drogoz
Music
Eugénie Kuffler
Music

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