Sep 15, 1987
100 min
Full-HD

Life Is a Dream (1987)

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.

Category

Drama Fantasy

Country

France

Companies

Sylvain Thirolle

Roch Leibovici

Bénédicte Sire

Jean-Bernard Guillard

Jean-François Lapalus

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