Directed by Werner Herzog • 1970 • West Germany
Starring Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig
With his brilliantly anarchic second feature, Werner Herzog took his place as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema. Cast entirely with dwarf actors, the film follows the chaos that erupts when the inmates confined to a repressive institution rise up in revolt against their keepers—a rebellion that gradually devolves into unchecked depravity. A furious allegory of oppression and liberation, EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL is an extreme and disturbing vision of human nature freed from all authority.
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Fata Morgana
Directed by Werner Herzog • 1971 • West Germany
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Land of Silence and Darkness
Directed by Werner Herzog • 1971 • West Germany
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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Directed by Werner Herzog • 1974 • West Germany
Starring Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brgitte MiraBased on real events, THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER tells the story of a young man imprisoned in a basement dungeon for the first seventeen years of his life, devoid of human contact, until his captor...
