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Stroszek (1977)

Stroszek (1977)

Released 7-Jan-2010

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If you create a user account, you can add your own review of this DVD Werner Herzog’s bleak, brilliant and enigmatic story of a German ex-con (Bruno S.) who attempts to find a new life in America is probably best known as the film Ian Curtis of Joy Division watched the night he committed suicide. This dark, magic realist road movie confirms Herzog’s reputation as the “consummate poet of doom” (Janet Maslin, New York Times).

After he is released from a Berlin prison, Stroszek meets a prostitute, Eva, at a bar and offers her a place to stay when two pimps assault her. Following further attacks, the two agree to join Bruno’s diminutive old friend, Scheitz (Clemens Scheitz - Heart of Glass, Nosferatu), on a trip to Wisconsin to live with his relatives. The trio hope they will get rich in America. It doesn’t happen. Wisconsin is a barren, redneck wilderness and soon their motor home is repossessed and Eva leaves with a truck driver. After a bungled robbery, Bruno is left with a frozen turkey, a gun, and enough money to watch a dancing chicken.

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