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Even Dwarfs Started Small

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Tormented patients stage a coup at a dismal asylum.

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Even Dwarfs Started Small

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Vincent Canby New York Times 05/09/2005
3/5
Even Dwarfs Started Small eventually is indistinguishable from its Germanic, side-show spectacle, as if it were a movie that had been conceived by the same kind of perverse, uninvolved intelligence that had created the world of the film. Go to Full Review
Don Druker Chicago Reader 01/01/2000
Not a vicious denial of the legitimacy of revolt (as too many critics have charged) but a bitter lament over the disservice revolutionaries do their revolutions. Go to Full Review
Arthur Ross Los Angeles Free Press 01/08/2020
The product of a rigorous imagination. Go to Full Review
Dan Jardine Apollo Guide 05/01/2007
93/100
Gobsmackingly good. A great and terrible film. Go to Full Review
Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com 07/31/2005
4/5
Leo Goldsmith Not Coming to a Theater Near You 04/23/2005
Patient and unrelenting, Herzog stages a total deterioration of narrative logic and social norms, as emblematized by a crucified monkey and a cannibalizing chicken. Go to Full Review
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Steve Y @Cubby65 Sep 19 Of the two of them, people always assumed Kinski was the mad one. After watching this, I'm not so sure. This type of film is right up my alley. See more Simon T 03/04/2024 Much as I love Herzog's later dramas and documentaries, this aimless and plotless experiment forced me eventually to give up. Whereas masterpieces like Aguirre, Nosferatu and Fitzcarraldo are anchored by mesmerising performances by Klaus Kinski and strong narratives, this self-indulgent story of renegade dwarves is simply a way of using up film stock. Uninvolving, tiresome and dull. See more Michael M 01/21/2024 This movie portrays a whole lot of straight up animal torture. For your own good, don't watch this film. See more Brian R 12/28/2020 like having a freakish dream except this wastes an 1-1/2 hours of your time. was hoping Mr. Herzog would create a film that could be added to some of his other great works but it wasn't See more 07/14/2018 Absolutely dreadful. This could have made an interesting short (as the premise of an all-dwarf film is quite arresting) but watching 90 minutes of cackling dwarfs creating mayhem is enough to try anyone's patience. Still, maybe this is what gave Joe Dante the inspiration for Gremlins so something positive may have come out of it. See more 11/02/2017 This has simply got to be one of the oddest films ever made. It's hilariously unique, establishing some of the running themes in Herzog's succeeding work, and not failing to create a brilliant allegory. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Tormented patients stage a coup at a dismal asylum.
Director
Werner Herzog
Producer
Werner Herzog
Screenwriter
Werner Herzog
Genre
Drama
Original Language
German
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 15, 2017
Runtime
1h 36m
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