The Hourglass Sanatorium Blu-ray 4K Ultra HD 1973 Radiance hour glass Jan Nowicki Wojciech Has

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Regarded as one of the greatest Polish films of all time!

Introducing Radiance Film's Limited Edition Blu-ray for 1973's The Hourglass Sanatorium. Adapted to the screen from a book of Bruno Schulz short stories by visionary director Wojciech Has (The Saragossa Manuscript), the film overcame fear and scepticism from the Polish authorities when Has smuggled the film out of the country to premiere it at Cannes, where it would go on to win the Jury Prize.

A young man, Józef (Jan Nowicki, O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization), takes a train into the middle of nowhere to visit his dying father, who he understands is residing in a sanatorium. On arrival he discovers a giant building crumbling into ruin, with the patients seemingly left to their own devices, and time itself behaving in strange, non-linear ways. A doctor then informs him that his father is both alive and not-alive, beginning an epic hypnagogic journey through the hospital and his own mind, with each room unlocking its own sinister, hallucinatory world.

The Hourglass Sanatorium has come to be regarded as one of the greatest Polish films of all time, with its surreal structure and staggering feats of production design proving hugely influential on arthouse and fantasy filmmakers alike.  

Limited Edition Features: 

• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by critic Ela Bittencourt
• Limited edition of 5000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

Features: 

• New 4K restoration from the original camera negative, presented in Dolby Vision HDR
• 4K UHD and Blu-ray presentation of the feature; world premiere on 4K UHD
• Uncompressed mono PCM audio
• New audio commentary by Polish film expert Michael Brooke (2026)
• Archival interview with production designer Jerzy Skarzynski by filmmaker Jerzy Wójcik (1997)
• Accordion - acclaimed early short film from Wojciech Has (1947)
• Newly improved English subtitle translation

Technical Specs:

• Year: 1973
• Region Code: ABC
• Audio: NA
• Picture: NA
• Runtime: NA
• Language: Polish
• Subtitles: English