A young man tormented by nightmares, Jean Berlot (played by Pavel Liska), repeatedly experiences the same dream: two demons break into his bedroom and drag him off to an insane asylum. Exhausted and desperate, Berlot encounters the mysterious Marquis (played by Jan Triska). This eccentric nobleman, who claims he can cure Berlot, lures him to a sinister and terrifying asylum. The oppressive atmosphere, the sickly inmates, the disturbing "raw meat performances" interspersed in the darkness, and a series of nauseatingly debauched acts push the disoriented Berlot to the brink of total collapse. When he learns from the seemingly innocent nurse Charlotte (played by Anna Geislerová) about the vile true faces of the asylum director and the Marquis, this hellish nightmare has only just begun. 　　This surrealist work, *Lunacy*, created by Czech film and animation master Jan Švankmajer, won Best Film at the 2005 Pilsen Film Festival and the 2006 Czech Lion Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Poster Design, among other accolades. It also represented the Czech Republic in the competition for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Švankmajer warns viewers from the very beginning that this is an anti-aesthetic film designed to test the limits of your vision and challenge your psychological endurance. With this film, he pays homage to the master of the aesthetics of death, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Marquis de Sade, the writer of eroticism. Terrifying raw meat and viscera, horrifying rituals and nightmares—together they construct this utterly deranged and pathological nightmare asylum.