Dwarves also started out small
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Dwarves also started out small |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Werner Herzog |
| script | Werner Herzog |
| production | Francisco Ariza |
| music | Florian Fricke |
| camera | Thomas Mauch |
| cut | Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus |
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Even dwarfs started small is a surrealist film drama from 1970 by Werner Herzog . In the "disturbing parody of society", madmen take control of their accommodation and anarchy breaks out. Actors are exclusively short actors.
The film was "first blocked by the film self-regulation and then released, rated as 'particularly valuable' by the film evaluation office", the film premiered two years after its completion in a side program at the Cannes Film Festival. At first, the film was controversially rated and found no distribution.
action
The film is about the residents of a correctional home in a remote province. For disciplinary reasons, some of the residents are not allowed to go on an excursion. They use the unaccustomed freedom due to the absence of the director to break out of the usual order and express themselves in blind violence and destruction. The educator on duty takes one of the rampaging residents into custody and holed up on the premises. Without a vulnerable opponent from outside the situation escalates more and more and the aggression and violence among the rebels increases more and more.
The film depicts - represented by the exclusively short actors - normal people in an oversized world that they can no longer cope with.
background
- The film is the second part of Herzog's unofficial trilogy, the other films are the documentary The Flying Doctors of East Africa from 1969 and Fata Morgana from 1971.
- The film, shot in the wasteland of Lanzarote , got by on a budget of 200,000 US dollars.
- After an actor was run over by a car during the filming and later caught fire, Herzog promised to jump into a cactus if everyone survived the filming. He kept this promise and suffered from his injuries for six months.
Reviews
“As in Lebenszeichen , Herzog describes a radical attempt to break out of the world of hierarchies and conventions in his second feature film, which is followed by relapse into compulsive repetition. With irritating, often surrealistic sequences of images, the film breaks conventional narrative dramaturgies and strives to transcend visionary boundaries. Numerous motifs from Herzog's later work are echoed: society, seen from the perspective of marginalized existences; Visions of the collapse of bourgeois values; Delusion and obsession as forces that shape reality. "
Web links
- Even dwarves started small Photo gallery of the shooting in the Werner Herzog collection of the Deutsche Kinemathek
- Even Dwarfs Started Small in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Even dwarfs started small at filmportal.de
- Even dwarves started small in the lexicon of international film
- Even Dwarfs Started Small at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Even Dwarfs Started Small. The Film Society of Lincoln Center , accessed on June 30, 2016 (English): "[...] deranged parody of human society [...]."
- Jump up ↑ Wolf Donner : Naughty Lilliputians. Die Zeit , July 17, 1970, accessed June 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Werner Herzog. A retrospective. German Historical Museum , accessed on June 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Jonathan Cott: Werner Herzog: Signs of Life. Rolling Stone , November 18, 1976, accessed December 9, 2015 .
- ^ Entry in the Lexicon of International Films