Stroszek

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Herzog's eulogy to mid-west, trailer-park America has Bruno S move to Railroad Flats with his prostitute girlfriend to escape from drab Berlin. It's a heartfelt examination of two worlds and it takes Herzog's gall to produce some of the incredible images that come to symbolise parts of the country. The ending features the infamous dancing chicken.

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Audio commentary by Werner Herzog & Norman Hill; Werner Herzog biography; Theatrical trailer; Stereo 2.0 plus optional 5.1 and DTS.

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Review by Graeme Hobbs on 30th September 2004

After the institutionalised Bruno S had appeared as the idiot savant in Herzog’s earlier The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Herzog promised him the part of Woyzeck. He realised this would be a mistake, cast Kinski instead and placated ‘Der Bruno’ by writing Stroszek for him, in which Bruno S moves to the mid-West with his prostitute girlfriend. Herzog calls it his eulogy to America; its appeal caertainly lies in the everyday strangeness he finds there, and the way he organises his cast of pimps, farmers, truckers, auctioneers, car-breakers and sherrifs. It’s a charming tragedy if you like. The ending features the infamous chicken doing the endless barnyard shuffle (along with a rabbit on a fire truck and a duck with a drum). As Herzog says, it’s a great metaphor, even if he’s not quite sure what for. Herzog’s audio commentary is well worth a listen too as he provides a typically informative and amusing background to the film.

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Article - "Werner Herzog" by Graeme Hobbs
Tuesday 9th August 2005

“The images that surround us today are worn out; they are abused and useless and exhausted. They are limping and dragging themselves behind the rest of our cultural evolution… I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not...  View article in full

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