Stroszek

For the band, see Stroszek (band).
Stroszek
Promotional poster
Directed byWerner Herzog
Written byWerner Herzog
Produced byWerner Herzog
Walter Saxer
Starring
CinematographyThomas Mauch
Edited byBeate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Music by
Production
companies
Distributed byWerner Herzog Filmproduktion
Release dates
  • 20 May 1977 (1977-05-20) (Munich)[1]
  • 12 July 1977 (1977-07-12) (USA)
Running time
116 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguagesGerman
English

Stroszek [ˈstrɔʃɛk] is a 1977 West German tragicomedy[2][3][4][5][6][7] film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Bruno S., Eva Mattes, and Clemens Scheitz. Written specifically for Bruno S., the film was shot in Plainfield, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. Most of the lead roles are played by inexperienced actors.

  1. ^ Wahl, Chris. "Filmography". A Companion to Werner Herzog, edited by Brad Prager. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, p. 593. ISBN 9781405194402.
  2. ^ "FILM:Flyaway Herzog". www.sfgate.com. 9 September 1998. Retrieved 11 April 2019. Also screening is Herzog's 'Stroszek' (1977), a bleak tragicomedy which follow a misfit trio from their dead-end lives in Germany to the hinterlands of Railroad Flats, Wisconsin.
  3. ^ "STARTING 10/25: THE HELLO,GOODBYE SERIES: HERZOG, ALTMAN, MAY, MAMBÉTY, ASHBY..." Retrieved 11 April 2019. This special program includes Werner Herzog's 1977 tragicomedy STROSZEK, about a couple from Berlin who immigrate to America and find it very different from the place they imagined
  4. ^ "Stroszek". hpl.bibliocommons.com. 2008. Retrieved 11 April 2019. Featuring a remarkable cast and one of the most bizarre, memorable endings in film history, Werner Herzog's Stroszek is a brilliant tragicomedy which explores what happens when the American dream becomes a nightmare.
  5. ^ "Stroszek [1977]". www.amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 11 April 2019. Featuring a remarkable cast and one of the most bizarre, memorable endings in film history, Werner Herzog's STROSZEK is a brilliant tragicomedy which explores what happens when the American dream becomes a nightmare.
  6. ^ Southern, Nathan (8 January 2002). "Stroszek". www.barnesandnoble.com. Retrieved 11 April 2019. Equally strange, however, is the backstory that belies the production of the film - an outrageous tale that outstrips anything in the movie itself with its quotient of pure unadulterated nuttiness, and that explains the inspiration for much of the tragicomedy that unfolds onscreen.
  7. ^ "Stroszek". www.tvguide.com. Retrieved 11 April 2019. Shot in a flat semi-documentary fashion, STROSZEK is Werner Herzog's bleak tragicomedy about a group of German misfits confronting America.