Even Dwarfs Started Small

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Infobox Film | name = Even Dwarfs Started Small


caption = Helmut Döring as Hombré
director = Werner Herzog
producer = Werner Herzog
writer = Werner Herzog
starring = Helmut Döring
music = Florian Fricke
cinematography = Thomas Mauch
editing = Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
distributor =
released = 1970
runtime = 96 min.
language = German
budget = $200,000Werner Herzog, DVD audio commentary for "Even Dwarfs Started Small"]
imdb_id = 0065436

"Even Dwarfs Started Small" ( _de. "Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen") is a 1970 film by German director Werner Herzog.

A group of dwarfs confined in an institution on a remote island rebel against the guards and director (all dwarfs as well) in a display of mayhem. The dwarfs gleefully break windows and dishes, abandon a running truck to drive itself in circles, engineer food fights and cock fights, set fire to pots of flowers, kill a large pig, torment some blind dwarfs, and crucify a monkey.

Production

The film was shot on the Canary Islands, at Lanzarote. The film was produced during the same time period as Herzog's "Fata Morgana" and "The Flying Doctors of East Africa", and there are visual and thematic connections between the three works. Notably, the goggles worn by the blind dwarfs are the same goggles which appear repeatedly in "Fata Morgana".

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. During the flower burning scene, the same actor caught fire and Werner Herzog raced over and beat the fire out. The actor only had minor injuries from the fire.After these two accidents, Werner Herzog promised the actors that if they made it through the rest of filming without any more injuries he would jump into a cactus patch and allow the actors to film him doing so. The film was finished without any further injuries and the director made good his promise and dove into the cacti. Herzog has said, "Getting out was a lot more difficult than jumping in."cite book
last = Herzog
first = Werner
title = Herzog on Herzog
publisher = Faber and Faber
date = 2001
isbn = 0-571-20708-1 ]

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External links

*imdb title|id= 0065436|title="Even Dwarfs Started Small"


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