“Stroshek” ( German: Stroszek ) is a film by the German director Werner Herzog . The premiere in Germany took place in January 1977 . One of the director’s most piercing pictures, “Strooshok”, is a tragic parable about a “ consumer society ”, which indifferently plucks out of itself everything extraordinary and grinds the fate of “little people”.
| Stroshok | |
|---|---|
| Stroszek | |
 | |
| Genre | drama parable |
| Producer | Werner Herzog |
| Producer | Willie Zegler |
| Author script | Werner Herzog |
| In the main cast | Bruno S. Eva Mattes Clemens Schitz |
| Operator | Thomas Mauch |
| Composer | Chet Atkins Sonny Terry |
| Film company | Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Skellig Edition, ZDF |
| Duration | 109 minutes |
| A country |  Germany |
| Language | and |
| Year | 1977 |
| IMDb | ID 0075276 |
Content
- 1 plot
- 2 Work on the film
- 3 Awards
- 4 facts
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Story
West Berlin , mid-1970s. The protagonist Bruno Strošek, a street musician who has recently been released from prison and clearly suffering from a mental disorder, is trying to start living anew. Together with his neighbor, the eccentric old man Shayts, and the prostitute Eva, who is suffering from the oppression of a pimp, he goes to America ( Wisconsin ). However, life on the "promised land" is just as bleak as in the homeland. Heroes are not able to pay their housing. Eva returns to her usual craft. Bruno and Schitz make a miserable attempt to rob the store, as a result of which the old man is arrested. Bruno, desperate, goes where he looks and finds himself on a Cherokee Indian reservation ( North Carolina ). He leaves his wretched car, turning the steering wheel so that the car spins over the area for a long time; sits on the funicular and now it is spinning on it like a squirrel in a wheel, and then ends up with a shot from a gun.
Work on the film
The script of the film was written in a few days, based on the leading actor, non-professional actor Bruno S. and using a number of facts of his biography. Thus, the film partly gravitates to the documentary . As Herzog recalls, he promised Bruno that he would remove him in the title role in the movie Wojcieck based on a play by Buchner . After he announced to Bruno that another actor would be filming, Bruno was so confused and disappointed that Herzog promised that in two days he would receive a script for a new film in which he would star, and that even the name would remind him Wojcieck. [1] He kept his promise, and considers this hasty script to be one of his best works. [one]
Rewards
The film received a special jury prize at the Taormina Film Festival and a prize from the German Association of Film Critics for the best film, and was also nominated for the Deutscher Filmpreis Award for Best Actress (Eva Mattes).
Facts
- This film was watched before the suicide by the leader of the Joy Division Ian Curtis .
- In French-speaking countries, he walked under the name "Ballad o Bruno" ( La Ballade de Bruno ).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Werner Herzog. Herzog on Herzog . ISBN 0571207081 . Pages 142-143.
Links
- Stroshok on the Internet Movie Database
- Stroshok on the allmovie website