Jeremy and Chris Arnsby take a long jump into left field for Werner Herzog's 1970 satirical fantasia Even Dwarfs Started Small, taking in crucified monkeys, hypnotised chickens and drowned rats on the way.
As well as the usual trailer and product links below, enjoy some highlights from Herzog's bizarre career.
The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable and disturbing elements of our nature come forward.
Werner Herzog (1982) Copyright London Weekend Television/Melvyn Bragg This video uploaded for non-commercial use only www.getusedtothebear.com
This piece of video already exists on Youtube, but those do not include English subtitles. As there are many non Germans out there who would like to know what the hell they are talking about I uploaded this. The video is taken from Werner Herzog's documentary "My Best Fiend".
In 1979, Les Blank took a detour to film German filmmaker Werner Herzog honoring a vow he made to Errol Morris that he (Herzog) would eat his shoe if Morris ever actually made one of his films he was forever talking about.
from the BBC
In this scene, Herzog is bored to tears talking to a penguin expert so he asks the seemingly flippant question, "Can a penguin go insane?" Yet the very next scene we see just that - out of a swarm of penguins heading to the mating grounds a lone dissenter makes make a sharp right and head towards the mountains in a full-speed waddle.
