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Even Dwarfs Started Small

Even Dwarfs Started Small

1970, Movie, 1h 36min

With his brilliantly anarchic second feature, Werner Herzog took his place as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema. Cast entirely with dwarf actors, the film follows the chaos that erupts when the inmates confined to a repressive institution rise up in revolt against their keepers—a rebellion that gradually devolves into unchecked depravity. A furious allegory of oppression and liberation, EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL is an extreme and disturbing vision of human nature freed from all authority.

Country: Germany

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Cast:

Helmut Döring,

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Critic William Thomas

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6

Perhaps the most beautiully shot and composed film in [the] director's portfolio.

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