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Even Dwarfs Started Small (1969)
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"Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honor and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes.Very few people seek these images today." - Werner Herzog
Never one to take the easy path Werner Herzog followed the success of his first feature, the award-winning Signs Of Life (1968), with a film that shocked, disturbed and enraged critics and audiences around the world.His influence can still be seen today in filmmakers like David Lynch and Harmony Korine. Featuring a cast composed entirely of little people (the first time that had been done since the 1938 western, The Terror Of Tiny Town, Even Dwarves Started Small is a brutal, uncompromising allegory about the consequences of imprisonment and rebellion. The inmates have taken over an institution in a bleak and savage world in which everyone's a dwarf.As one of the insti | | |