Stroszek
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Stroszek |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1977 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Werner Herzog |
| script | Werner Herzog |
| production | Werner Herzog |
| music |
Chet Atkins Sonny Terry |
| camera |
Thomas Mauch Edward Lachman |
| cut | Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus |
| occupation | |
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Stroszek is a film by the German director Werner Herzog , which was shot in Germany and the USA in 1976/77. The film opened in theaters on May 20, 1977.
Brief summary
Bruno Stroszek, a street singer who has been released from punishment in Berlin , is looking for happiness together with the prostitute Eva and his neighbor Scheitz in America. The plan fails. Herzog's film tries to be as natural as possible: the main actor plays himself.
action
Bruno Stroszek is a street singer in Berlin . Just released from prison, he meets the prostitute Eva again and offers her a place in his apartment. Eva's pimp finds her quickly, Eva and Bruno are beaten up. Together with their neighbor, old Mr. Scheitz, the two decide to emigrate to his nephew in Wisconsin , USA. Eva earns the money for the trip by buying something. In Wisconsin, in a village called Railroad Flats, the three of them buy a mobile home.
Bruno works as a mechanic, Eva officially works as a waitress, but also as a prostitute on the side. Old Scheitz pursues his esoteric inclinations. The little luck doesn't last long: Eva runs off with two truckers . The bank soon had the caravan auctioned because the payments were not made. Stroszek and Scheitz - with no money in their pockets and without a roof over their heads - want to rob the bank that has taken their house away from them. But since the bank has just closed, they raid the nearest hair salon. With the meager booty, they buy provisions in the supermarket across the street. Mr. Scheitz is arrested, but Stroszek gets away. He ends up on the Cherokee Indian reservation , NC .
Emergence
Bruno S. played his first leading role in Werner Herzog's 1974 film Everyone for himself and God against all - Kaspar Hauser . Werner Herzog was impressed by his acting performance and promised him the leading role in Woyzeck . But then Herzog decided on Klaus Kinski . In order to keep his promise, Herzog wrote the script for Stroszek within five days , which was tailored entirely to Bruno S.
Many episodes of the film originate authentically from the life of Bruno S. Many locations in the film are also locations from the real life of Bruno, for example the Berlin apartment and the backyard.
Reviews
- Stroszek received a lot of attention in the national and international press. When Stroszek appeared, Herzog was already an internationally acclaimed director who made a significant contribution to the trend of the so-called New German Cinema . The semi-documentary style (a deliberate style feature of Herzog) was misunderstood by many critics as a lack of craftsmanship, while others praised the film as very authentic and believable. In the USA in particular, the film generated considerable press coverage. " Stroszek (1977) is one of the oddest films ever made, " said the Chicago Sun-Times , for example .
- Stroszek was Duke "privatester and most important" film, writes the online journal F.LM . Although he is brittle and uncomfortable, he still appears timeless in his images and similes, which represent the eternal urge for freedom and self-determination.
- Film-dienst saw “great artistic inspiration and creative power” in Stroszek.
- In filmstarts.de, Carsten Baumgardt highlights the work of the cameraman Thomas Mauch, who “breathtakingly created poetic, stylized images through extreme coloring”, which nevertheless do not stand in contrast to the dark tone of the film.
Awards
- Stroszek received the German Film Critics' Prize in 1978
Trivia
- After the pop singer Ian Curtis of the post-punk band Joy Division , who was a great admirer of the works of director Werner Herzog , watched the film Stroszek in his apartment in May 1980, the singer committed suicide .
Web links
- Stroszek in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stroszek at Filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Audio commentary by music manager Tony Wilson , contained in the bonus material of the double DVD 24 Hour Party People (Disc 1 main film), Special Edition, 2008, Arthaus - Special Films , Leipzig + Kino Home Entertainment GmbH , Leipzig
- ↑ Culture: Beautiful dying with Joy Division by Harald Peters on the homepage of the daily newspaper Die Welt , www.welt.de, November 11, 2007, accessed on May 13, 2020