Dreams That Money Can Buy

1947 | 80 minutes | 6.4 ★ (17)

Dreams That Money Can Buy
  • Overview

    An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will improve his customer's lives. This frame story serves as a link between several avant-garde sequences created by leading visual artists of their day, most of whom were emigres to the US during WWII.

  • Release Date

    01 September 1947

  • DirectingHans Richter
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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