Werner Herzog Collection - 6-DVD Set ( Lebenszeichen / Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen / Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle / Stroszek / Herz aus Glas / Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen ) ( Signs of Life / Even Dwarfs Started Small / The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser / Stroszek / Heart of Glass / Where the Green Ants Dream )

Werner Herzog Collection - 6-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Lebenszeichen / Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen / Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle / Stroszek / Herz aus Glas / Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen
Alternate Title: Signs of Life / Even Dwarfs Started Small / The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser / Stroszek / Heart of Glass / Where the Green Ants Dream
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
574 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Biographies
Commentary
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1968 - 1984 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Werner Herzog

Written By:
Werner Herzog
Achim von Arnim
Herbert Achternbusch
Bob Ellis

Actors:
Peter Brogle ..... Stroszek
Wolfgang Reichmann ..... Meinhard
Athina Zacharopoulou ..... Nora
Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg ..... Becker
Wolfgang Stumpf ..... Captain
Henry van Lyck ..... Lieutenant
Julio Pinheiro ..... Gypsy
Florian Fricke ..... Pianist
Heinz Usener ..... Doctor
Achmed Hafiz ..... Greek resident
Jannakis Frasakis
Eleni Katerinaki
Helmut Döring ..... Hombré
Paul Glauer ..... Erzieher
Gisela Hertwig ..... Pobrecita
Hertel Minkner ..... Chicklets
Gertrud Piccini ..... Piccini
Marianne Saar ..... Theresa
Brigitte Saar ..... Cochina
Gerd Gickel ..... Pepe
Erna Gschwendtner ..... Azucar
Gerhard Maerz ..... Territory
Alfredo Piccini ..... Anselmo
Erna Smollarz ..... Schweppes
Lajos Zsarnoczay ..... Chapparo
Pepi Hermine ..... The President
Bruno S. ..... Kaspar Hauser
Walter Ladengast ..... Professor Daumer
Brigitte Mira ..... Kathe, Servant
Willy Semmelrogge ..... Circus director
Michael Kroecher ..... Lord Stanhope
Hans Musäus ..... Unknown Man
Marcus Weller ..... Frau Hiltel
Gloria Doer ..... Hiltel the prison guard
Volker Prechtel ..... Bavarian Chicken Hypnotizer
Herbert Achternbusch ..... Taunting Farmboy
Wolfgang Bauer ..... Little King
Wilhelm Bayer
Franz Brumbach
Johannes Buzalski
Helmut Döring
Bruno S. ..... Der Bruno Stroszek
Eva Mattes ..... Eva
Clemens Scheitz ..... Scheitz
Wilhelm von Homburg ..... Souteneur
Burkhard Driest ..... Souteneur
Clayton Szalpinski ..... Mechanic
Ely Rodriguez ..... Indian mechanic's helper
Alfred Edel ..... Jail headmaster
Scott McKain ..... Scott
Ralph Wade ..... Auctioneer
Michael Gahr ..... Prisoner Hoss
Vaclav Vojta ..... Doctor
Yuecsel Topcuguerler ..... Turk prisoner
Pit Bedewitz ..... Souteneur
Bob Evans ..... Bob Evans
Josef Bierbichler ..... Hias
Stefan Güttler ..... Huttenbesitzer
Clemens Scheitz ..... Adalbert
Sonja Skiba ..... Ludmilla
Wolf Albrecht
Thomas Binkley
Janos Fischer
Wilhelm Friedrich
Edith Gratz
Alois Hruschka
Egmont Hugel
Amad Ibn Ghassem Nadij
Sterling Jones
Karl Kaufmann
Brunhilde Klöckner
Bruce Spence ..... Lance Hackett
Wandjuk Marika ..... Miliritbi
Roy Marika ..... Dayipu
Ray Barrett ..... Cole
Norman Kaye ..... Baldwin Ferguson
Ralph Cotterill ..... Fletcher
Nick Lathouris ..... Arnold
Basil Clarke ..... Judge Blackburn
Ray Marshall ..... Solicitor General Coulthard
Dhungala I. Makika ..... Watson
Gary Williams ..... Fitzsimmons
Tony Llewellyn-Jones ..... Young attorney
Robert Brissenden ..... Supermarket manager
Michael Edols
Bob Ellis

Synopsis:

Six Early Masterpieces from the Director of Aguirre, Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo Both Milos Forman and Francois Truffaut have called Wernoz Herzog 'the greatest filmmaker alive today' and these six masterpieces illustrate why the German maestro is the most daring, visionary and dangerous filmmakers in cinemahistory. Titles include:
Signs of Life (1968) - Herzog's debut film, made when he was 24, tells of an injured soldier recuperating on a remote Greek island until the heat, exotic locale and suspicious, eccentric natives push him towards insanity
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) - With a cast comprised entirely of dwarfs, Herzog's allows the inmates to take over the asylum
Kasper Hauser (1974) - The compelling story of a 19th century child genius and idiot savant
Stroszek (1977) - In Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin
Heart of Glass (1976) - A village glass factory loses the means of making its ruby glass after the master dies and takes the secret with him. A mesmerising and beautiful film, the entire cast performed under hypnosis
Where The Green Ants Dream (1982) - Aboriginal tribes fight a huge mining company in this powerful culture clash drama that was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival

Signs of Life (1968)
On Crete, a wounded German paratrooper named Stroszek is sent to the quiet city of Kos with his wife Nora, a Greek nurse, and two other soldiers recovering from minor wounds. Billeted in a decaying fortress, they guard a munitions depot. There's little to do: Becker, a classicist, translates inscriptions on ancient tablets found in the fortress, Meinhart devises traps for cockroaches, Nora helps Stroszek make fireworks using gunpowder from grenades in the depot. Slowly, in the heat and torpor, Stroszek goes mad, drives the others from the fortress, and threatens the city with blowing up the depot. With care, the German command must figure out how to get him down.

Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable and disturbing elements of our nature come forward. The film shows how justifiable revolt may be empowering, but may also turn to chaos and depravity. The allegory is developed in part by the fact that the film is cast entirely with dwarfs.

The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Herzog's film is based upon the true and mysterious story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to speak or walk, and bearing a strange note; he later explained that he had been held captive in a dungeon of some sort for his entire life that he could remember, and only recently was he released, for reasons unknown. His benefactor attempts to integrate him into society, with intriguing results.

Stroszek (1977)
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten by the thugs who have been Eva's pimps, they join Bruno's neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin. In that winter bound, barren prairie, Bruno works as a mechanic, Eva as a waitress. They buy a trailer. Then, bills mount, the bank threatens to repossess the trailer, Eva wants privacy, and inexorably, the promise of a new life deserts Bruno.

Heart of Glass (1976)
Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas) is essentially a treatise by Werner Herzog on the power and importance of art. Director Herzog was known to put his actors through the wringer to get the results he wanted. In this film, Herzog decided that the best way to get his people to dance to the crack of his whip was to actually put them under hypnosis! The dazed, zombie-like performances certainly fit the subject matter. This is the story of an 18th-century Bavarian glassblower who by virtue of his delicate work virtually casts a spell over his neighbors. When the glassblower dies, the townsfolk discover that he failed to leave behind the secret for his special ruby glassware - and will do literally anything to find the answer. The word usually used to describe Heart of Glass is 'haunting'; some viewers have gone beyond haunted and into 'possessed.' Watch carefully and spot director Herzog in a bit as a glass carrier.'

Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
The geologist Lance Hackett is employed by an Australian mining company to map the subsoil of a desert area covered with ant hills prior to a possible uranium extraction. His work is impeded by some aborigines who explain that this is the place where the green ants dream. Disturbing their dreaming will destroy humanity they claim. Hackett informs the company which offers various 'solutions' such as a large amount of money or a percentage of a possible revenue. Invited on a trip to a city some of the aborigines sees a military aeroplane and express the wish to own it. The company buys it and gives it to the aborigines as a sign of good will. A runway is made in the desert and the plane is flown to the location. All negotiations concerning the area fail and the dispute goes to a court of the Commonwealth. Parties and experts are heard, obstacles are met such as an aborigine who is the sole survivor of his tribe (and language) and therefore no-one understands what he is saying. Two of the aborigines take off in the plane despite that there is very little fuel left. The mining company wins legally and the aborigines morally. Some aborigines arrives from the mountains and tells about a big winged ant that had fallen from the sky.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 03 February, 2012.