A Cure for Wellness

All of us are human. None of us are immune.
A Cure for Wellness (2017)
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Budget
$40 000 000
Revenue
$26 620 002
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Actors
Photo Dane DeHaan
Dane DeHaan
Lockhart
Photo Mia Goth
Mia Goth
Hannah
Photo Harry Groener
Harry Groener
Pembroke
Photo Celia Imrie
Celia Imrie
Victoria Watkins
Photo Adrian Schiller
Adrian Schiller
Deputy Director
Photo Ivo Nandi
Ivo Nandi
Enrico
Photo Tomas Norström
Tomas Norström
Frank Hill
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Short description

An ambitious young executive named Lockhart is sent by his company to bring back its chief executive from a wellness centre in a remote part of the Swiss Alps. The facility presents itself as a place of rest and healing, but Lockhart comes to suspect that its treatments are not what they appear to be. When he is found to have the same condition that keeps the other guests at the centre, he is enrolled as a patient under its director, Volmer, and begins looking into what is really going on there.

A Cure for Wellness was released in February 2017. Gore Verbinski directed it and produced it with Arnon Milchan and David Crockett, from a screenplay by Justin Haythe. It came after The Lone Ranger in Verbinski's filmography. The leading roles are played by Dane DeHaan as Lockhart, Jason Isaacs as Volmer and Mia Goth as Hannah, with Harry Groener, Celia Imrie and Adrian Schiller among the credited cast.

The film is a German and American production made for a budget of 40 million US dollars, and it took about 27 million US dollars worldwide, so it did not recover its cost at the box office. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.4 out of 10 from roughly 123,000 votes, and on TMDB also 6.4 out of 10, from about 4,300 votes. A film critics' rating of 5.3 out of 10 from 210 reviews places it below both audience scores. It runs 146 minutes.

What's left behind the scenes

  • The sanatorium building is part of a former hospital complex. During World War I, many soldiers, including Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), were treated there.
  • The film was shot in Germany. According to the plot, it takes place in Switzerland, and the mountains in the distance were added during post-production using computer technology.
  • The book read by the orderly in one of the scenes is Thomas Mann's (1875-1955) novel "The Magic Mountain" (1924). In the book, a young man comes to a sanatorium in the Alps to visit someone, but is told he is ill and needs to undergo a course of treatment there.
  • The sanatorium building was filmed at the old clinic for the treatment of tuberculosis patients in Belitz-Heilstätten. The building and surrounding area were in disrepair for decades, after which everything was restored. A total of 750 windows (with a total area of 1,000 square meters of glass), 350 doors, 1,200 square meters of walls, and much more were replaced during the process of restoring the building's historical appearance.
  • Filming took place at Hohenzollern Castle near Hechingen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Hohenzollern Castle was closed to visitors from July 13th to 24th, 2015, for filming.

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