Madness (Limiterad Slipcover Blu-ray)

Omslag med limiterat och numrerat slipcover

A British spy is hiding from the Nazis among the inmates at a lunatic asylum.

In the closing months World War II, a remote forest asylum is marked for liquidation. As the German troops prepare to lead the patients into the woods, Gestapo officer Windisch arrives with a different mission: he learns that a British agent is hiding among the 583 lunatics. Windisch must unmask the spy before the advancing Soviet army reaches the asylum. He narrows the suspects down to three - a former literary publisher, an army sergeant, and a man convinced he is the Führer himself. But the deeper Windisch probes the patients' impaired logic, the more his own grip on sanity begins to slip.

Hailed as the first truly modernist film in Estonian cinema, this allegory of power, guilt and free will under totalitarianism was shot in Estonia and Latvia.

Jüri Järvet won Best Male Actor at the 1969 Baltic film festival. He was later in Tarkovsky's Solaris.

The absurdist provocation was then banned for decades, and only officially premiered in Moscow in 1987, under Perestroika.

The film was digitally restored by Eesti Digikeskus (2012). The restoration was commissioned by Estonian Film Institute.

SPECIAL FEATURES

Poster & Photo Gallery

Behind the Scenes Documentary

Interview with Director Kaljo Kiisk

Audio Commentary with Christian Oberhofer and Tristan Priimägi, Estonian film critic and film historian

The Sanest Man in the Asylum. 20-page Essay