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1) Stroszek
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An alcoholic ex-convict joins a prostitute and a friend in their quest for a better life in Wisconsin.
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Based on a real historical event, this is the story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who appeared in a small German town in 1820 after having lived in total isolation from humans since birth. He is taught to speak, read, and write by townspeople, but is then mysteriously murdered.
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Herzog was transfixed by an early Kinski performance. From the chaos of sharing an apartment where Kinski completely destroyed a bathroom in a forty-eight hour rage, a volatile and creative partnership was born. Herzog documents the often violent ups and downs of their relationship, revisiting the various locations of their films and talking to the people they worked with.
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Land of silence and darkness: Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
Fata Morgana: footage shot in and around the Sahara desert accompanied by a spoken creation myth and music by Blind Faith, Third Ear Band and Leonard...
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Set in 18th century Bavaria, this film tells of a village that loses the formula for making its famous unique ruby glass after the master glass blower of the glassworks dies, taking the secret to his grave. The owner of the factory becomes obsessed with the lost formula and hires a clairvoyant shepherd (based on the legendary Bavarian prophet Mühlhiasl) to unravel the mystery as the townspeople slide into a deep depression, growing increasingly unstable...