Shot in a flat semi-documentary fashion, STROSZEK is Werner Herzog's bleak tragicomedy about a group of German misfits confronting America.
Released from prison, harmless street musician Bruno Stroszek (Bruno S.) moves into a Berlin slum and befriends prostitute Eva (Eva Mattes) and elderly piano-tuner Scheitz (Clemens Scheitz). Eva's estranged pimp repeatedly robs and bullies poor Stroszek; when Scheitz announces that a nephew in the
United States has invited him over, Stroszek and Eva go along. They wind up in Railroad Flats, Wisconsin, casual employees of the hospitable local farming community, and the immigrants discover the joy of buying on credit. Soon the...
Released:
1976
Rated:
n/a
Length:
108 mins