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8 years, 8 months ago at Aug 23 16:19
Herzog's opera prima: a necessity to film outside Germany, even it has all its filosofical questions. Stroscek is surpassed by his madness, he builds stories, fire, light in a very quiet island.
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On Crete, a wounded German paratrooper named Stroszek is sent to the quiet city of Kos with his wife Nora, a Greek nurse, and two other soldiers recovering from minor wounds. Billeted in a decaying fortress, they guard a munitions depot. There's little to do: Becker, a classicist, translates inscriptions on ancient tablets found in the fortress, Meinhart devises traps for cockroaches, Nora helps Stroszek make fireworks using gunpowder from grenades in the depot. Slowly, in the heat and torpor, Stroszek goes mad, drives the others from the fortress, and threatens the city with blowing up the depot. With care, the German command m
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Release date: 9 December 1981
UPC: 717119221546
UPC: 717119221546
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