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Synopsis: 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. In that winter bound, barren prairie, Bruno works as a mechanic, Eva as a waitress. They buy a trailer. Then, bills mount, the bank threatens to repossess the trailer, Eva wants privacy, and inexorably, the promise of a new life deserts Bruno.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Werner Herzog
Production: New Yorker Films
  2 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
NOT RATED
Year:
1977
115 min
720 Views


But I'm much older than you,

and I'm going over.

Anyway, if you want something,

you're never too old.

You're never too old.

And if we don't like it,

we can always come back.

We could give it a try.

Look, here's Chicago,

and New York, and California.

Everybody makes money there,

and we can, too.

How are we going to

pay for the trip, and the visas?

We don't have that kind of money.

I'll get it, don't you worry about that.

Fucky-f***? Yeah? How much?

- How much you want?

- Fifty.

- Twenty-five.

- Look. Fifty.

- Thirty.

- Fifty.

Too expensive.

- Fifty is cheap.

- No, expensive.

- Take a look.

- Thirty-five.

- Fifty, come on.

- Thirty-five.

What do you say now, Bruno?

I earned all this.

Well, blow me down.

We're going to start all over again.

Right, and it's about time.

Berlin's been getting on my nerves.

I've had some

good news from my nephew.

He says in his letter that you can

work as an auto mechanic in his shop.

Yes.

And you can get a job

as a waitress in a restaurant, Eva.

It's a place like we

have on the autobahn here...

...where all the truck drivers stop.

- Sounds good.

This is my nephew

and his assistant, a red Indian.

And as far as a place

to live goes, he says...

...we can put up a prefabricated

house. There's plenty of room.

Eva, what kind of country is this...

...where they confiscate my Beo.

He knows a sentence in German:

"What's loose? The dog's loose."

He was with the Air Force

in Ramstein, that's when we met.

It's called Railroad Flats, because

of all the trains that come through.

Clayton thinks that there are

not only four but five murderers here.

Because not long ago, a man

drove his tractor out into the fields...

...and that was the last

anybody ever saw of him.

The police couldn't find

any trace of him, either...

...so Clayton went out and bought

a metal detector, because he thinks...

...the man and his tractor may be

at the bottom of one of these lakes.

And now he goes out

every weekend to look for him.

The lakes are frozen over now,

so he can walk on the ice...

...to see if the tractor

really is at the bottom.

Clayton says to

stay away from the fence...

...when those two

farmers are out plowing.

They've been fighting

over that strip of land in between...

...and when one comes out,

the other one does too...

...to make sure that neither one

starts plowing that strip of land.

Sooner or later they're going

to start shooting at each other.

I noticed already

that they both carry guns...

...and they drive right

past each other real close.

There's even a bathtub.

This is pretty marble.

It's just wonderful.

There's no water yet.

Still know how?

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director. Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Schröter, and Wim Wenders. Herzog's films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. more…

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