Even Dwarfs Started Small
- Helmut Döring: Hombre
- Gerd Gickel: Pepe
- Paul Glauer: Educators
- Erna Gschwendtner: Azucar
- Pepi Hermine: The President
- Gisela Hertwig: Pobrecita
- Gerhard March Territory
- Hertel Minkner: Chicklets
- Gertrud Piccini: Piccini
- Marianne Saar: Theresa
Even Dwarfs Started Small is a surrealistic film drama from 1970 by Werner Herzog.
Action
The film is about the residents of a parent 's home in a remote province. For disciplinary reasons, some of the residents may not know you on a trip, the unaccustomed freedom by the absence of the Director is used by them to break out of the usual order and explains in blind violence and destructiveness. The duty teacher takes one of the rampaging residents into custody and entrenched on the premises. Without a vulnerable opponent from outside the situation escalated more and more, and the aggression and violence is increasing among the rebels to increase.
The film depicts - exclusively represented by the diminutive actor - ordinary people in an oversized world, they are no longer equal.
Background
- The film is the second part of Herzog's unofficial trilogy, the other films are the documentation The Flying Doctors of East Africa between 1969 and mirage from the year 1971.
- Filmed in the wasteland of Lanzarote movie came out with a budget of U.S. $ 200,000.
- Once a performer has been run over by a car during the shooting and later also caught fire, Duke promised to jump into a cactus, if all of them would survive the shooting. He kept this promise also and it had to suffer for six months of his injuries.
Reviews
"As in life character portrays Herzog in his second feature film, a radical attempt to escape from the world of hierarchies and conventions, the relapse into compulsive repetition follows. With irritating, often surrealistic image sequences, the film goes beyond conventional narrative dramaturgy and seeks visionary transgression. Many motifs from Duke 's later work on sound: the society, from the perspective of marginalized; Visions of the breakdown in civil society; Madness and obsession as reality forces shaping. "