Stroszek
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1h 47m
Directed by Werner Herzog | 108 mins | 1977
Herzog’s longstanding fascination with cannibal killer Ed Gein drew him to shoot his devastating film of American dreams deferred in wild, wonderful Wisconsin, where a West Berlin street musician, Stroszek—played by Bruno S., the oft-institutionalized busker who’d previously appeared in Herzog’s 1974 "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser"—arrives with ex-streetwalker Eva Mattes and an elderly acquaintance in tow. Hoping for a new life in the land of opportunity, Stroszek instead finds disillusionment, disappointment, and, at a roadside attraction outside Cherokee, North Carolina, a dancing chicken who seems to represent the very futility of existence. The last film viewed by Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.
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