Heart of glass (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | heart of Glass |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | Bavarian |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Werner Herzog |
| script |
Herbert Achternbusch , Werner Herzog |
| production | Werner Herzog |
| music | Popol Vuh |
| camera | Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein |
| cut | Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus |
| occupation | |
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Heart of Glass is a 1976 film by Werner Herzog (direction and production) . The main character Hias is based on the legendary Bavarian prophet Mühlhiasl .
action
The film takes place in a Bavarian village in the 19th century, where the valuable " ruby glass " is made in a glassworks . With the death of the master glass blower Mehlbeck, the manufactory loses the secret of making ruby glass, and the village gradually falls into confusion and madness. The hut owner hires clairvoyant Hias, a seer from the mountains, to bring the production process back from the realm of the dead. But Hias receives apocalyptic visions of destruction and collective madness - he prophesies the horrors of 20th century Europe.
background
During the filming (according to the director) almost all actors involved were under hypnosis (exception: Hias and the professional glassblowers who appear in the film). The allegedly hypnotized actors appear in a very strange way and, in addition to acting, give their characters a rare stylization, a means by Duke to give the film a metaphysical, remote atmosphere. Many of the film's mysterious dialogues were improvised by the actors under hypnosis.
The filming locations were mainly in Bavaria, not far from Herzog's homeland. Other short landscape shots were shot in various parts of the world that Herzog had previously traveled (e.g. Yellowstone National Park in the United States and the Skellig Islands in Ireland). Heart of Glass celebrated its premiere in West Germany on December 17, 1976.
Like other members of the production, Herzog makes a brief appearance in the film as one of the men carrying a load of ruby glass to the river.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : “A film of suggestive beauty, divided into stations, with irritating time shifts and (according to the director) hypnotized actors. The prophetic, visionary dimension of the film is matched by the atmospheric painting, which often borders on the cultic. "
- In March 2011, Roger Ebert added the film to his list of Great Movies .
- Gilles Deleuze writes in his second cinema book Das Zeit-Bild : "In this film in particular, Herzog developed the greatest crystal images in the history of film."
Awards
- 1977: German film award in gold for Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein (camera) (price level 250,000 DM)
Web links
- Heart of glass in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heart made of glass at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Christoph Blumenberg : Film: Werner Herzog's "Heart of Glass": Behind the horizon. Zeit-online, November 21, 2012.
- ↑ Werner Herzog, DVD audio commentary on Heart of Glass
- ↑ Heart of Glass. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 10, 2016 .
- ^ Roger Ebert: Heart of Glass . Retrieved March 23, 2011.
- ↑ Gilles Deleuze: The time picture. Cinema 2 . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 978-3-518-28889-4 , p. 104 .