Year 2016 Video Release 2016-03-08 Studio Kino Lorber Genre Comedy MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 119 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is Guy Maddin's ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins after a prologue on how to take a bath with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen within. Suddenly, impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders into their company and tells his tale of escaping from a fearsome clan of cave dwellers. From here, Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson take us high into the air, around the world, and into dreamscapes, spinning tales of amnesia, captivity, deception and murder, skeleton women and vampire bananas. Playing like some glorious meeting between Italo Calvino, Sergei Eisenstein and a perverted six year-old child, THE FORBIDDEN ROOM is Maddin's grand ode to lost cinema. Director Guy Maddin Cast Guy Maddin; Mathieu Amalric; Udo Kier,; Charlotte Rampling; Geraldine Chaplin; Roy Dupuis; Clara Furey; Louis Negin,; Maria de Medeiros; Jacques Nolot; Adele Haenel