Stroszek

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Date: January 01, 1977 to December 31, 1977
Dates Note: 1977
Country of Origin: Germany
Place of Origin: West Germany
Languages: German
Color: Color
Silent: No
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Ambassador of Cinema: Tom Luddy’s Lasting Influence at BAMPFA
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Stroszek is to Herzog what Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is to Rainer Werner Fassbinder: his most accessible and audience-oriented film to date. Herzog subtitled his film “A Ballad”; in it he tells a lyrical, melancholy, bitterly funny tale of three oddly assorted Berlin misfits who follow the American Dream to Railroad Flats, Wisconsin, a godforsaken truck stop where they find a bleak El Dorado of TV football, CB radio, and mobile homesteading. The title role is played by Bruno S., the Berlin busker and former mental institution inmate whom Herzog previously cast to play Kaspar Hauser.

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