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All the book-based movies and TV shows adapted by Timothy Quay

Timothy Quay is known for adapting Jakob von Gunten, the book by Robert Walser published in 2014, for cinema.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the 1909 book, Jakob von Gunten
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Jakob von Gunten
Robert Walser, 1909
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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay, 1995

Jakob is a young man who enters a school, run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta, which trains servants. The teachers emphasize to the students that they are unimportant people. Jakob finds the school to be an oppressive environment, and does not enjoy the lessons in subservience that he receives. He proceeds to challenge the Benjamentas and attempts to shift their perspectives.