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La ballata di Stroszek - Nosferatu il principe della notte by Werner Herzog, Flaminia Bussotti (Translator)
bookshelves: film-only, published-1982, summer-2014
Read from July 06 to 07, 2014
Full film with English Subtitles
Description from wiki: Bruno Stroszek (Bruno S.) is a Berlin street performer. Released from prison and warned to stop drinking, he immediately goes to a familiar bar where he comforts Eva (Eva Mattes), a prostitute down on her luck, and lets her stay with him at the apartment his landlord kept for him. They are then harried and beaten by Eva's former pimps, who insult Bruno, pull his accordion apart and humiliate him by making him kneel on his grand piano with bells balanced on his back. Faced with the prospect of further harassment, Bruno and Eva decide to leave Germany and accompany Bruno's eccentric elderly neighbour Scheitz (Clemens Scheitz), who was planning to move to Wisconsin to live with his American nephew Clayton.
- It is known that one of the last things Ian Curtis of the band Joy Division did, just prior to committing suicide in 1980, was watch the film, as well as listen to Iggy Pop's The Idiot. The ending scenes of Stroszek appear in the 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, during scenes which recreate Curtis' final moments.
Some fun noir moments, however this is not in the same league as Woyzeck. No siree.
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