Prison, in this Italian science-fiction film, no longer means cells and bars but a state of engineered sleep, and the story begins when that system stops working the way it's supposed to.
What is Hypersleep about?
Hypersleep imagines a near-future justice system that has replaced traditional incarceration with a form of deep, sedated slumber, letting inmates serve out their sentences unconscious rather than confined. David Damiani, a prison psychologist, moves through this quiet, controlled world until one inmate breaks the pattern entirely, resisting the sedation and the authority behind it in ways Damiani cannot easily contain. Director Alberto Mascia builds the film around that unraveling, using the clinical setting to ask what happens when a system designed to remove human unpredictability runs into a person it cannot fully put under.
About the cast
Stefano Accorsi anchors the film as psychologist David Damiani, with Katsiaryna Shulha, Astrid Meloni, Andrea Germani, Alessandro Gazale, Paolo Pierobon, Toni Laudadio and Giordano De Plano filling out the cast across the story's institutional setting.
Context & significance
Hypersleep belongs to a European science-fiction tradition that favors clinical, contained settings over large-scale spectacle, using a single institution to stand in for a whole society's approach to punishment and control. Its premise, sedation as incarceration, gives the film room to explore consent, authority and the ethics of a justice system with no visible violence, only quiet compliance. At 103 minutes, the film from Italy stays close to its central psychologist-inmate relationship rather than widening into a broader thriller.
Watching Hypersleep on Ktime
Hypersleep streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles available, letting viewers watch in whichever form fits them. The film's page is open to read without signing in, while watching itself needs only a K-Time account under a paid subscription, with no extra purchase attached.