The Sleep of Death (1981)

Country of Origin: Sweden / Ireland
Year of Production: 1981
Running Times: 90 mins
Length: 2460 metres
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Aspekt Telefilm-Produktion GmbH / National Film Studios of Ireland / Dragon Co / Svenska Filminstitutet
Executive Producer: Reidun Stenbeck
Producers: Calvin Floyd
Associate Producers: Rudolf Hertzog, Måns Reuterswärd
Production Managers: Albert Schwinges, Paul McGuinness, Don Geraghty
Unit Manager: Tom Hayes

SCRIPT
Script: Calvin Floyd, Yvonne Floyd
Story: The Room in the Dragon Volant by Sheridan Le Fanu

DIRECTION
Directed by: Calvin Floyd
First Assistant Director: Seamus Byrne
Second Assistant Director: Peter Holder
Third Assistant Director: Ben Gibney
Trainee Assistant Director: Martin O'Malley
Continuity: Laerke Sigfred-Pedersen

PHOTOGRAPHY
Directors of Photography: Tony Forsberg, Jirí Tirl (real name: George Tirl)
Camera Grips: Paddy Keogh, Luke Quigley
Chief Gaffer: Louis Conroy

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: James Morris
Assistant Editors: Michael Kelliher, Susanne Linnman, Finola Vereker

MUSIC
Music by: Ragnar Grippe

SOUND
Sound: Liam Saurin, Tom Curran
Boom Operators: Patrick Byrne, John Fortune

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costumes: Eva Lisa Nelstedt
Chief Make Up: Kjerstin Elg
Assistant Make Up: Rosie Blackmore, Toni Delany, Joanna Lennox

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Directors / Set Designers: Mathias Matthies, Ellen Schmidt

MISCELLANEOUS
Nurse: Teresa Gantly
Unit Runner: Martin O'Malley

LOCATIONS
Locations: England, UK; Ireland

STUNTS
Stunts: Michael Rowland

CAST
Per Oscarsson (Colonel Gaillard)
Patrick Magee (Marquis)
Marilu Tolo (Countess Elga)
Brendan Price (Robert Terence)
Niall Toibin (Sean)
Curd Jürgens (Count St Alyre)
Kay Maclaren (old woman)
Barry Cassins (The Count's brother)
Christopher Casson (Sir Philip Terence)
John Molloy (priest)
Ray Mac Nally (Inspector Carmingac)
Archie O'Sullivan (chemist)
Bill Foley (Colonel's orderly)
Jacintha Martin (first maid)
Olwen Fouere (second maid)
Sheleigh McCleod (third maid)
Shibvan Briers (English maid)
Cecil Barror (Deacon)
James Read (Marquis's servant)
Eamon Draper (first soldier)
Jerry Collins (second soldier)
Michael Rowland (first postillion)
Onagh Colligen (Felicity)

PLOT SUMMARY

1815: a young Englishman is touring Europe when he falls in love with the Countess St Alyre. But he soon falls in with the sinister Marquis D'Armanville and finds himself in a nightmarish situation from which there seems to be no escape.

AVAILABILITY

USA
Video Distributors: Prism Entertainment

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Iceland
Rating: 12

Sweden
Rating: 15

TIMELINE

1981
November
23: Sweden - theatrical release

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

The Flying Dragon
The Inn of the Flying Dragon
Ondskans värdshus - Swedish title

LINKS

SEE ALSO
Dow Hour of Great Mysteries: The Inn of the Flying Dragon (1960)
Mystery and Imagination: The Flying Dragon (1966)

KEYWORDS

book into film

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008