Hypnos (film)

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Movie
German title Hypnos
Original title Hipnos
Country of production Spain
original language Spanish
Publishing year 2004
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director David Carreras
script Juanma Ruiz Cordoba
production Pau Calpe
music Óscar Maceda
camera Xavi Giménez
cut Frank Gutierrez
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Hypnos is a psychological thriller by David Carreras from 2004. The story is based on the novel Hipnos by the Spanish writer Javier Azpeitia .

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The young psychiatrist Beatriz Vargaz starts her work in a psychiatric clinic . She is welcomed by the nurse Elena and gets to know a girl who was found next to her body, completely disturbed after her mother's murder. After she takes a shower, she goes out into the hallway where she hears voices. There she observed how Doctor Sanchez Blanch treated the girl with hypnosis and told him that she would soon cut her veins. Beatriz feels increasingly uncomfortable in the clinic, which looks eerie just because of its unusual architecture.

The situation worsens dramatically when the girl is found dead in the pool one night. It committed suicide. Shortly before, Blanch had promised Beatriz that she would be allowed to take over the case because she gained recognition through her work on the first few days. Instead, she is now dealing with another patient. Miguel is considered to be easily irritable and aggressive; nothing is known about his past. Beatrice gets to feel that right away. But the man has more to offer than violence. He claims that the girl's death was not a suicide. Rather, the doctors drove the young woman to her death - and this is not the first such case in the clinic. In further conversations, Miguel tells that he is in reality not a patient, but snuck in as an undercover agent to end the criminal machinations of Blanch and his colleagues. Since Beatrice doesn't believe him, he points out that he has buried his pistol and badge under a tree. Beatrice actually found the objects the following night - and she saw the corpse of patient Ulloa, with whom she had previously had contact several times. Miguel tells Beatrice to flee, but she is stopped by a doctor at the entrance.

Reality mixes more and more with memories and imaginations. After a confusing mess, Beatrice is now wearing blue clothes instead of a white coat. She is therefore a patient and runs the risk of being driven to her death by Blanch. She asks Elena for help, but the nurse, who was previously sexually active with Miguel on the beach, does not answer her.

Beatrice suddenly has a vision. She sees the deceased girl who is trying to seduce her father, Miguel, who is visibly frightened. The mother enters the apartment and attacks Miguel with a screwdriver, injuring him, whereupon Miguel kills her. Then Beatrice wakes up and the story is finally cleared up. Beatriz herself is the disturbed girl, the daughter of Miguel and his murdered wife Elena. She experienced the whole story in the clinic while she was being treated by her psychiatrist Dr. Blanch was hypnotized. Beatriz leaves the clinic with Miguel.

Awards

  • Silver Grand Prize at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film 2005

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