Longest Movie Ever?
What’s the longest movie ever? According to the Guinness Book of Records, it would be the aptly named The Cure for Insomnia (1987), which runs an incredible 5,220 minutes (87 hours). It doesn’t have a plot and was shot on video rather than on film, so it may not technically quality as the world’s longest movie. And no, I haven’t seen it, though I did sit through a 190-minute screening of Michael Snow’s The Central Region (1970), which also doesn’t have a plot.
Other contenders for longest movie include the 1,620-minute The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (1928–1931), the 1,452-minute Grandmother Martha (1996), the 873-minute Resan (1987), the 773-minute Out 1 (1971), the 643-minute Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004), the 566-minute Shoah (1985), and the 511-minute War and Peace (1968).
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