在这部沙人奇幻/恐怖片中,L'Uomo della sabbia (The Sandman) is the first episode of the 1981 RAI horror anthology series I Giochi del Diavolo (The Devil's Games). It is based on the short story Der Sandmann (1816) by E.T.A. Hoffmann. Hotheaded, romantic student Nathaniel conceives a passion for the professor's daughter, Olympia. Others, though, say she has no soul, even that her singing and dancing are mechanical. When he stumbles on the professor and his assistant fighting over the automaton's disassembled body, Nathaniel becomes even more unhinged.
