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The Mystery of Henry Darger

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In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. Henry Darger was so reclusive that when he died his neighbors were surprised to find a 15,145-page manuscript along with hundreds of paintings depicting The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glodeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Cased by the Child Slave Rebellion.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Henry Darger

    Himself

  2. Cast 1

    Larry Pine

    Henry Darger (Voice)

  3. Cast 1

    Dakota Fanning

    Narrator/Vivian Girls (Voice)

  4. Frier McCollister

    Voice

  5. Cast 1

    Wally Wingert

    Voice

  6. Mary O'Donnell

    Herself (Neighbor)

  7. Kiyoko Lerner

    Herself (Landlady)

This is a 2004 documentary film by Jessica Yu introducing the life and work of Henry Darger. A major figure of "outsider art", Darger's work was only discovered after his death when his landlords found thousands of pages of text and paintings in his room. Through his long life, he was known to his few friends and associates only as a janitor in a local hospital. Secretly, he wrote a massive manuscript chronicling the rebellion of girl slaves in a fantasy world, painted with watercolors of the heroines and battles. Yu has chosen three main narrators for the documentary. A little girl (Dakota...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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