Where to Watch You Shall Not Sleep (2018) in the US

What it's about

Bianca Aguilar is a young and promising Buenos Aires' actress who cares of her schizophrenic father Miguel. After to play in Greek tragedy Antigona, she is tempted by Krasso, assistant of the famous dramatist Alma Böhm, to join Insomnes ("Insomniacs"), a stage play that she tried unsuccessfully produce in 1984 after the main actress Marlene renounced in the mid of the stage due to the several days without sleep and each more unstable state mind. Doubting to accept the offer, Bianca is suddenly stalked and stabbed in the left arm by Miguel due to a mind crisis, having forced to intern him in a hospital. Accepting the job, Bianca realizes that her longtime friend and too actress Cecilia is in the cast, and both move to an abandoned psychiatric hospital outside Buenos Aires where they meet Alma and the rest of the cast, Fonzo and Sara. Following Alma's hard instructions, Bianca starts a sleep deprivation process as well as the rest of the cast, looking for inspiration and deep in the characters to make them as real as be possible. But the experiment with insomnia derives in a series of hallucinations and delusions after to reach new thresholds of perception that expose them to the dark secrets of the psychiatric and the evil energies that inhabit it, discovering the hidden past and the terrible reality about the stage play that they're doing and the place where they are doing it.

Cast and crew

Director

Gustavo Hernández

Writer

Juma Fodde, Ignacio García Cucucovich, Gustavo Hernández

Starring

Belén Rueda, Eva De Dominici, Natalia de Molina

Details

Release date

Jan 11, 2018

Language

Spanish

Country

Spain, Argentina, Uruguay

Awards

3 wins & 3 nominations

Where to Watch You Shall Not Sleep (2018) in the US — common questions

Where to watch You Shall Not Sleep in the United States?

You Shall Not Sleep is available to rent in the United States. Rent the movie on Apple TV Store (HD) and Prime Video.

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