In a Glass Cage

(1986)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 119 votes

Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Year: 1986

Runtime: 112 мин

Country: Spain

Director: Agustí Villaronga

Cast: Günter Meisner, David Sust, Marisa Paredes, Gisèle Echevarría, Imma Colomer Marcet, Josuè Guasch, David Cuspinera, Ricardo Carcelero, Alberto Manzano

Plot

A mysterious teenager named Ángelo cares for Klaus, a German doctor with a dark past who lives trapped in an iron lung.

In Spain, the former Nazi doctor Klaus tries to commit suicide jumping off the roof of his manor. However, he survives with the entire body paralyzed and dependent on an iron lung with glass sides. His wife Griselda decides to hire a nurse since she does not bear the situation. Klaus asks Griselda to hire Angelo, a mysterious teenager that appears in their house. Angelo befriends Klaus' daughter Rena and sooner it is shown that Klaus was a pedophile that loved to feel the fear of death in young boys before abusing and killing them. Further, Angelo is a disturbed and totally insane victim of his experiments that intends to follow the insanities described in Klaus' diary and incorporate his personality.