Stroszek

1977 · 108 min · DE · NR · 7.3 (316 votes)

Dir. Werner Herzog · Starring Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz, Wilhelm von Homburg, Burkhard Driest, Clayton Szalpinski · Music Sonny Terry

“A Ballad”

Drama

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 and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

VIBE

A profoundly sad, yet strangely tender, look at lost souls adrift in a harsh world. It's a quiet, observational film that finds humanity in the bleakest circumstances, leaving a lingering sense of melancholy.

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