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Even Dwarfs Started Small

Cast

Helmut Doring, Paul Glauer, Gisela Hertwig, Hertel Minkner View All


Crew

Werner Herzog (Screenplay), Werner Herzog (Director) View All

Release: Sep. 16th, 1970
Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes
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...
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mark f
Herzog says that he didn't see Freaks (another flick which I recommend but only give - raised to recently) until after he finished Even Dwarfs Started Small, but Herzog felt that Browning never understood how great his film was because he started it with an apology.


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