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Marisa Paredes (Actor, Host), Günter Meisner (Actor, Host), Agustí Villaronga (Director, Host) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Marisa Paredes, Günter Meisner, David Sust, Gisèle Echevarría, Imma Colomer
  • Directors: Agustí Villaronga
  • Producers: In a Glass Cage ( Tras el cristal ), In a Glass Cage, Tras el cristal
  • Format: Import, PAL, Subtitled
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Run Time: 107 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B003AVD44K
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Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Stylistically compelling, morally ambiguous, and profoundly unsettling, this Spanish psychodrama from writer-director Agustin Villaronga stands beside Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salo as one of cinema's most unflinching depictions of human depravity. The story opens in post-WWII Catalonia as former Nazi death camp 'doctor' Klaus (Gunter Meisner) consummates his torture-murder of a young man by hurling himself from the roof of his house; this act, motivated either by a sudden attack of conscience or by some form of sexual mania, leaves him paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breathe on his own. We soon find Klaus lying prone in an archaic iron lung, attended by his stern wife Griselda (Marisa Paredes) and young daughter Rena (Gisela Echevarria). When they become unable (or, in his wife's case, unwilling) to look after him, Griselda hires handsome young nurse Angelo (David Sust), unaware that the young man is one of Klaus' former victims, who has maintained a detailed dossier on the 'doctor' and his countless unspeakable atrocities. Thus begins a perverse and surreal manipulation of master/servant roles between the immobile Klaus and his equally demented attendant, as the young man attempts to recreate the nightmare world of the camps, even procuring more young victims for his former tormentor's amusement. Though it could be asserted that the stylistically accomplished Villaronga has made a passionate artistic statement about mankind's capacity for unspeakable atrocities, his film may be construed as being one of those horrors in itself. At any rate, Tras el Cristal is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Fant...In a Glass Cage ( Tras el cristal )

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5.0 out of 5 starsBrilliant but extremely challenging work
By Shred Head Dan on 5 July 2011
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I was attracted to this film mainly for it's controversial reputation(I am one of those people who hunts down this sort of thing),but also the story sounded intriguing and potentially gripping(I also like a really well-made film,regardless of genre).I admit I was a little hesitant at first because the subject of child murder is extremely upsetting to me(I only have to think of some of the real-life atrocities commited to children and I start to get teary-eyed).So I knew I would have a rough time watching this.
Thankfully,there are only two scenes of actual murder on-screen(I don't think I could have managed much more)and one very brief sexual act.Without doubt the two murder scenes are the most gruelling and upsetting scenes I have ever witnessed on film(especially the first one).I couldn't actually watch these in their entirety and was crying the whole time.The scenes are so well acted that you can lose yourself in the illusion and look past the performances so you become a fly on the wall and feel like you are actually watching this really happen(the way proper acting SHOULD make you feel).When I was watching these scenes,I was transported to a room with Myra Hindley,so the fear etched on that first child's face made me beakdown,as I imagined that's what it must have been like for Hindley's victims.It is enough to send a shiver up your spine.
In A Glass Cage is an intensely dark film,about as dark as they come and a legitamately shocking piece of work.However it is much more than that.It is a daring,brutally honest and unflinching gaze into the heart of pure evil,a morbidly fascinating work that is perfectly made and impeccably acted(even the young children are scarily realistic in their roles as victims).But it is very confrontational and at times nearly impossible to watch.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsDisturbingly hypnotic
By J. Harrison on 15 Oct. 2007
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Director Agustin Villaronga's In a Glass Cage (1986) belongs to that special kind of art-house sub-genre, the Transgressive Horror Film. In other words, its pitch black subject matter, debatable amoral subjectivity, and kinky violence may be a bit too arty and pretentious for the average horror fan who is simply looking for a good old-fashioned slasher flick or monster a go-go. Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you.

Films such as Pier Paolo Pasolini's almost unwatchable yet fascinating Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) comes to mind, as does Andrzej Zulawski's 1981 existential monster film, Possession. Both of these worthwhile films were firmly in the realm of the "intelligent" art-house take on the horror genre. Although both films aimed to repulse, horrify, outrage, and disturb the viewer, Pasolini and Zulawski were nevertheless not making straight horror films. Their objectives were to spur one to political action or to turn inward and examine the political crises within, so to speak. The films of David Lynch are also firmly within this art-house sub-genre, although he embraces the conventions of the genre more so than not.

In a Glass Cage, while not a full-fledged horror film, is a more slippery and tricky film to pin down. Yes, its pedigree is with the art-house Transgressives, but Villaronga's film is far too vicious, as it gleefully wallows in cinematic perversity, to remain an art-house Transgressive without stirring up some serious second thoughts. In many ways it's a lot closer to Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960), John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986), and the films of Jorg Buttgereit among others, than it is to its art-house kindred. It works better as a straight horror film than it does a meditation on sexual perversity.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsblu-ray
By Blood Freak on 17 Feb. 2012
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The film is excellent, very dark and disturbing but also beautifully shot and extremely well acted. It iss not for everyone as it deals unflinchingly with some contentious subject matter, but is a sombre and haunting tale that qualifies as one of the best horror films of the 1980s.

The blu-ray from Cult Epics is region free and is a huge improvement over their original DVD release. The 1080HD transfer is brighter, more colourful, more natural. It's also 16x9 enhanced. There are new extras too including a new interview with director Agusti Villaronga, a 40 minute featurette with Villaronga and early short films by him.

For those that can stomach it, this is the definitive release of In A Glass Cage.
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5.0 out of 5 starsDisturbing but brilliant
By filmboychris on 17 April 2013
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A hard to watch film, depicting a nasty ex-nazi now crippled and living in an aqualung, whose wife engages the help of a young male nurse to look after him.

The nurse however, secretly worships the nazi for the tortures he performed on young boys during the war, and wants to re-enact them himself, whilst the old guy watches and gets off sexually on the murder and mayhem.

Sick and horrible, this film is beautifully filmed and acted, and as with all art horror movies, it gets away with it's vile subject matter by presenting it in a subtle and stylised way.

Still depressing and unpleasant to watch. It's power to shock is undeniable.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA Dark Tale Effectively Told
By Steven Martin Cox on 3 May 2012
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There are many creepy moments in this film which have been very effectively staged, including a staircase denouement worthy of Hitchcock. The film ventures into several 'taboo' areas that are sure to push the buttons of the puritanical, but for those who understand that life is sometimes a very dark place, this film is a refreshing treat.
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