Heart of Glass
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1h 34m
Directed by Werner Herzog | 95 mins | 1976
As in "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972), Herzog here combines images of misty mountains majesty and the haunting sounds of Popol Vuh with the story of a descent into madness—tripped in this 18th century Bavarian village by the death of the master glassblower, who takes with him the formula for a prized ruby glass. Famously, all of the actors—except, crucially, for the glassblowers—performed under hypnosis, giving proceedings an eerie, Bressonian quality.
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