Dream City () is a 1973 West German drama film directed by Johannes Schaaf and starring Per Oscarsson and Rosemarie Fendel.
Plot An artist couple from Munich move to a supposed utopian state that has been set up in Asia.
Cast Per Oscarsson as Florian Sand Rosemarie Fendel as Anna Sand Olimpia as The Girl Eva Maria Meineke as Mrs. Lampenbogen Helen Vita as Princess Heinrich Schweiger as Mr. Gautsch as Hercules Bell as Dr. Lampenbogen Louis Waldon as Louis Josef Hlinomaz as Magistrate Herbert Bötticher as Sir Edward Emil Iserle as Prof. Korntheur Suacina Krytenés as Ludwig the Dwarf
Production The film is loosely based on the 1909 novel The Other Side by Alfred Kubin, transposed from the Mitteleuropa of its day to 1970s West Germany. The production budget was two million Deutsche Mark. Filming took six months and took place in Czechoslovakia, especially Krumlov, and Israel.
Reception Vincent Canby of The New York Times called the film "an interior decorator's dream, full of bizarre sets, costumes and make-up", and described it as a "nightmare that can't make up its mind whether its interests are psychological or political".
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