ABOUT THE FILM

DEATH binds us. It’s the finish line to which we all race; a marathon 
whose many detours define our DREAMS. You could be killed by  television or a tuba; seduced or shackled.  Even a game of CHESS can  smear BLOOD on the board.  In “The Dead and the Dreaming”, eight  episodes of death answer QUESTIONS you’d never want to ask. Two 
gunrunners argue death’s superiority to prison. Jake and Carl ARGUE  
CANCER over death.  “The Dead and the Dreaming” shows all  perspectives, from the GRAVE, above and beyond. Death is never right, 
wrong, or simple. A rainbow in the gloom LIGHTS a hitman finding the 
morality in burial, a SERIAL KILLER obsessing over the photographer 
who trails him, and two terminally ill men PLAYING a friendly game of Russian ROULETTE. Characters range from desperate to desperadoes. 
Eight macabre vignettes, all exploiting the PRIVACY of our loneliest 
secret: DEATH happens. Struggling with reality, “The Dead and the 
Dreaming” presents its case in glorious black and white; MINGLED with 
title cards and sometimes, French SUBTITLES.  We've all fallen in our 
NIGHTMARES; "The Dead and the Dreaming" reminds us to WAKE UP before HITTING THE GROUND.

Screenplay by Wolfgang Lehmkuhl & Daniel Probst

Based on stories by Wolfgang Lehmkuhl, Daniel Probst, Stephen J. 
Heffernan, Mike Feraro, and Cynthia Copeland.