Movie: Zoetrope

Top 3 Billed Cast

Nigel Bonfield
Nigel Bonfield

Michael Bradley
Michael Bradley

Robert Deacon
Robert Deacon

Man / Machine (uncredited)

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    Zoetrope is a haunting and surreal film set in an apocalyptic, decaying world. Based on Franz Kafka’s “In the Penal Colony”, a man is imprisoned for an unnamed crime and tortured by a nameless sadistic bureaucrat. As the chilling nightmare unfolds, the prisoner peels away the layers of his own metaphysical existence, inching ever closer to his inescapable fate.

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    1999-01-01

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    5.577

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    2.8 starts
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    English
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