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A man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women who stretch and dream, but never awaken. Bedazzled by their seductive yet innocent tenderness, but distressed about the reason for their deep sleep, he delves into the mystery of the house of sleeping beauties.

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• Closed Captions

Sales Points

• Based on the book 'Nemureru Bijo' by Yasunari Kawabata
• The original book has been put into movies at least 3 other times
• For fans of Bilitis, House of Sleeping Beauties (Japan, 1995), Sleeping Beauties (Spain, 2001)

Press Quotes

Seductively filmed...mesmerizing...Sex, death and the endless fascination of unclothed innocence

     —Jeanette Catsoulis, N.Y. Times

'An alternately lyrical and disturbing adult fairy

     —New York Magazine

'A sleepy thriller about a man flirting with his own mortality in a very unusual bordello. The photography is absolutely gorgeous.'

     —twitchfilms.net

All the moody pretentiousness of European A-minus erotica at its finest...undeniably addictive

     —Salon.com

'It would be easy to dismiss 'House of the Sleeping Beau ties' as a lewd male fantasy, but that would be ignoring the German film'sdeeper purpose as - in the words of the director, Vadim Glowna - a meditation on 'transition, remembrance, mourning, guilt

     —New York Post

Do you find this premise anything but repugnant? It offends not only civilized members of both sexes, but even dirty old men, dramatizing as it does their dirtiness and oldness

     —Roger Ebert

Not even the august presence of Maximilian Schell can dispel the odor of smut that clings to House of the Sleeping Beauties

     —Jeanette Catsoulis, N.Y. Times