Heart of Glass (1976)
- 1976
- ·94 min
Der Vorarbeiter einer kleinen Dorfglashütte stirbt, ohne das Geheimnis des berühmten „Rubinglases“ preiszugeben.
- Schauspieler
- Clemens Scheitz·Josef Bierbichler·Sonja Skiba·Stefan Güttler
- Regie geführt von
- Werner Herzog
- Genre
- Comedy·Drama
- Sprache
- German
- Land
- Germany
- Director
- Werner Herzog
Each of Herzog's films is an experiment in one way or another. Heart of Glass is one of the most overtly experimental of the lot.
You have to watch this film and you have to watch it with the audio commentary on, it's hilarious. Sinnerman in his write up last year commented on the one-liners that Herzog comes out with throughout the film but the really classic one, that for some reason he omitted, comes about 80 minutes into the film.
In the story of the breakdown of a small glassblowing factory in a Bavarian village around 1800, Werner Herzog's Heart of Glass sees the melancholy of communities depending on manufacture, the disconnectedness of people without a feeling of purpose. Dashed hopes and visions of a desolate future come in the guise of the soothsaying of a shepherd, who prophesizes in a hypnotic state.
