Monday | May 3, 2004 7:00 pm

Stroszek

Screening on Film

Directed by Werner Herzog.
With Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz.
West Germany, 1977, 35mm, color, 115 min.
English, German, Turkish with English subtitles.

One of Herzog's most accessible films, Stroszek is a lyrical, melancholy, bitterly funny tale of three oddly-assorted Berlin misfits who follow the American Dream to Wisconsin and find a bleak El Dorado of television, football, CB radio, truck stops, and mobile homesteading. The title role is played by Herzog's unique actor Bruno S., with Eva Mattes as a soulful whore, and Clemens Scheitz as an eccentric old man conducting a homemade search for the secrets of animal magnetism.