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Even Dwarfs Started Small (German: Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen) is a 1970 West German absurdist comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog.
Feb 2, 1971 · Even Dwarfs Started Small: Directed by Werner Herzog. With Helmut Döring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig, Hertel Minkner. A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy.
Even Dwarfs Started Small 1970 1h 36m Drama List 100% Tomatometer 8 Reviews 76% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings Tormented patients stage a coup at a dismal asylum.
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Aug 15, 2013 · The lunatics take over the asylum and anarchy reigns in this deranged parody of human society, performed by a cast consisting entirely of dwarfs.
A group of dwarfs at a correctional facility erupt in anarchy. A group of inhabitants of a correctional colony for people of small stature raises a riot against the local order. Tired of adhering to the many rules that require good behavior from them, they decide to become bad.
An in-depth review of the film Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970), aka Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen, directed by Werner Herzog, featuring Helmut Doring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig.
Nov 29, 2023 · Read an in-depth review and critical analysis of Even Dwarfs Started Small by film critic Brian Eggert on Deep Focus Review. Even Dwarfs Started Small is a confounding and vivid picture, even by Werner Herzog’s standards.
Sep 8, 2021 · Banned in Germany for being both “ anarchistic and blasphemous” (no arguments here), Dwarfs is Herzog’s deranged, Kafkaesque take on insurgence against institutional oppression, illustrated most strikingly—and contentiously—in its casting of only little people, whose characters exist in a world cruelly indifferent to their diminutive ...
Even Dwarfs Started Small The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming.
In a police station a dwarf is seated on a chair. He is photographed and then interrogated about acts of violence he committed during a revolt. The story thus turns back in time, to when the dwarfs, detained in a correction facility, took advantage of the director’s absence to rebel.
