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Werner Herzog [videorecording].

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Material type: Film

FilmPublication details: Troy, Mich. : Anchor Bay Entertainment, c2004.Description: 6 videodiscs (610 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (17 cm.)Subject(s):

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Contents:

[Disc 1] The enigma of Kaspar Hauser (109 min.) -- [Disc 2] Even dwarfs started small (96 min.) -- [Disc 3] Lessons of darkness (54 min.); Fata Morgana (76 min.) -- [Disc 4] Heart of glass (94 min.) -- [Disc 5] Little Dieter needs to fly (74 min.) -- [Disc 6] Stroszek (107 min.)

Production credits:

Werner Herzog, writer, producer, director.

Summary: The enigma of Kaspar Hauser (original title: Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle): Based on a real historical event, this is the story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who appeared in a small German town in 1820 after having lived in total isolation from humans since birth. He is taught to speak, read, and write by townspeople, but is then mysteriously murdered.Summary: Even dwarfs started small (original title: Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen): The inmates have taken over an institution in a bleak and savage world in which everyone's a dwarf. As one of the institution's directors holds a rebel hostage while issuing orders for calm, the other inmates run amok, smashing equipment, setting fires, fighting for power and tormenting two blind prisoners. In this land of reversed proportions, these revolutionary outcasts not only destroy the symbols of civilization -- cars, typewriters and dinner plates -- but trees and flowers and animals as well.Summary: Lessons of darkness (original title: Lektionen in Finsternis): A documentary of 1992 post-Gulf War Kuwait, focusing on the oil well fires ignited by retreating Iraqi soldiers. Fata Morgana: Herzog brings his cameras to the Sahara desert in order to film mirages. He combines the apocalyptic, often hallucinatory images of the desert with passages from the Mayan creation myth, the Popol Vuh, set to songs of Leonard Cohen.Summary: Heart of glass: (original title: Herz aus Glas): Set in the 18th-century, this film tells of a Bavarian village that loses the secret of making its unique ruby glass. The townspeople turn to madness, murder, and magic in a desperate effort to recover the pure ingredient they have lost. During the filming, Herzog hypnotized his actors in order to help convey the atmosphere of hallucination, prophecy and the visionary.Summary: Little Dieter needs to fly: Growing up in post-WWII Germany, all Dieter Dengler, the son of a Nazi slain during the war, dreamed about was becoming a pilot. At age 18 he emigrated to the United States and worked odd jobs until he was accepted into the Navy and began pilot training. He was sent to Vietnam around 1966 and on his first mission was shot down and taken prisoner. There, the Vietcong tortured him until Dengler engineered a hair-raising escape and eventually returned to the U.S. His story is recounted here via interviews with Dengler, archival footage and new footage seamlessly spliced together.Summary: Stroszek: Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten by the thugs who have been Eva's pimps, they join Bruno's neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-01823 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Booklet		1605016455X

Films originally produced 1969-1998.

Special features include: audiocommentary by Herzog; theatrical trailers; production notes; Werner Herzog biography.

The films in German have optional English subtitles.

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