Stroszek

Herzog’s sardonic but touching tale of an odd trio of misfits leaving Berlin to find a new life in deepest Wisconsin.

  • Director

    Werner Herzog

  • With

    Bruno S, Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz

  • West Germany-France-Spain-Italy 1977. 108min

  • Certificate

    15

  • Some English subtitles

Keen to work again with the lead from Kaspar Hauser, Herzog built an entire fiction around Bruno S. Tormented by local pimps, ex-con and busker Bruno leaves Berlin, together with prostitute Eva and eccentric pal Herr Scheitz, to live out the American Dream… in Railroad Flats, Wisconsin. A darkly amusing, deeply compassionate, genuinely fresh tale of friendship, forlorn hopes and dashed ambitions.

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