Even Dwarfs Started Small (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen) is a 1970 film by German director Werner Herzog. Werner Herzog was born Werner Stipetic on September 5, 1942 in Munich. ...
A group of dwarfs and midgets confined in a asylum on a remote island rebel against the guards and director (all dwarfs as well) in a display of raw and nonsensical violence (setting fire to the building, making a car run in circle, crucificing a monkey, making fun of a camel, etc.) with no real dialogues but only grunts and uncontrolled laughter.
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EvenDwarfsStartedSmall (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen) is a 1970 film by German director Werner Herzog.
A group of dwarfs and midgets confined in an institution on a remote island rebel against the guards and director (all dwarfs as well) in a display of raw and nonsensical violence (setting fire to the building, making a car run in circle, crucifying a monkey, making fun of a camel, etc.)
While filming the scene where a van drove in circles with no one at the wheel, one of the actors was run over, but immediately stood up uninjured.
Putting aside The Wizard Of Oz, Werner Herzog's EvenDwarfsStartedSmall may be ground zero for that dubious tradition.
Demanding a fellow inmate be set free, prisoners trap their supervisor in his office, then proceed to run amok, conduct mock weddings, crucify a monkey, and set potted flowers on fire with gasoline.
Even those who find their patience stretched, or are unable to compare it favorably with Tod Browning's Freaks, should enjoy the typically bizarre and enlightening commentary track, which finds Herzog offering up such observations as, "Chickens are something that frighten me because they are so stupid...
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