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The Man Who Sleeps

7.819741h 18mMovieDrama

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.

DirectorBernard Queysanne
WriterGeorges Perec
ProducerPierre Neurrisse

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Cast · Directed by Bernard Queysanne

JSJacques Spiesser
Jacques Spiesser
Man
LMLudmila Mikaël
Ludmila Mikaël
Narrator

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The Man Who Sleeps hasn't started streaming in United States yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around June 12, 1974. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.