Stroszek

Stroszek
by Werner Herzog

Stroszek
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Actor: Bruno S., Burkhard Driest, Clemens Scheitz, Eva Mattes, Wilhelm von Homburg
Director: Werner Herzog
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-08
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay

Movie Reviews of Stroszek

Movie Review: 3.5 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars

The Bottom Line:

Strozek is undeniably slow at times, but it's so fascinatingly bleak in its depiction of middle America that the viewer can't help coming away impressed--throw in a couple of scenes that function perfectly as metaphors and linger in the brain (the perpetually dancing chicken, tiny baby with a vicelike grip) and it's a movie that I'll remember, even if I didn't enjoy it per se.

Summary of Stroszek

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten by Eva's pimps, they join Bruno's neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin in search of the American dream.
Stroszek is one of Werner Herzog's most accessible films, and one of his best. Herzog's clever use of kitschy folk music is just one perfect element in this mesmerizing, seriocomic "ballad" of America, in which a trio of unlikely friends leave their dreary lives in Berlin, certain that wealth and comfort await in America. Their naive American dream turns sour in rural Wisconsin, and the title character (played by Bruno S., the fascinating nonactor from Herzog's The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser) becomes an insanely tragic figure, celebrating a bitterly absurd Thanksgiving in the film's unforgettable closing scenes. By fusing his own intuitive, enigmatic style with factual details from the life of Bruno S., Herzog captures the elusive "ecstatic truth" that motivates his enduring cinematic vision. While deepening one of the most unusual actor-director collaborations in the history of film, Stroszek presents an American nightmare that's funny, bizarre, and deeply, magnificently human. --Jeff Shannon

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