Klaus did many unspeakable things to children during his days as a doctor in a Nazi death camp – all ending in murder, normally en masse. When the 1000 Year Reich is killed before reaching adolescence, Klaus flees for Spain where the caudillo’s cohorts hide him and his kin. Here, in the quiet of a mansion by the sea, he continues to live his ‘passions’, until… he ends up in an iron lung. Then Angélo appears on the doorstep offering his services to take care of Klaus. But who is Angélo?
The first feature and first masterpiece of Villaronga; one of the – crypto-canonical – key films of the 1980s. Back then, In a Glass Cage was fêted and feared as a taboo-breaker, a ‘shock movie’. Today it stands out as one of the very few films that ever dared to look deep into the eyes of fascism – not just the intellectual dynamics, but its very emotional essence and soul.
Film details
- Country of production
- Spain
- Year
- 1987
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 110'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
