Stroszek
“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.
melancholicwistfulbleakquirkyheartbreakingslow-burn Herzogiannaturalisticcharacter studyarthousedisillusionmentlonelinessthe american dreamfound familydesperation
vanunexpected happinesswisconsinamerican dreambreak-upemigrant
