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Life Is a Dream

7.619871h 40mMovieDramaFantasy

A baroque mix of revolutionary politics, pop culture and semiotics loosely based on the play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. A young prince learns that life is just a dream from which we wake when we die. And that dreams may be as real as life.

DirectorRaúl Ruiz
WritersRaúl Ruiz·Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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Cast · Directed by Raúl Ruiz

ST
Sylvain Thirolle
RLRoch Leibovici
Roch Leibovici
BS
Bénédicte Sire
JGJean-Bernard Guillard
Jean-Bernard Guillard
JLJean-François Lapalus
Jean-François Lapalus

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