Heart of Glass(Herz aus Glas)
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West Germany · 1976
1h 34m
Director Werner Herzog
Starring Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz, Sonja Skiba
Genre Comedy, Drama
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A small Bavarian village is renowned for its glass-blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the "Ruby Glass", the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obsessed with the lost secret. Infamously, the cast of the film performs mostly under hypnosis.
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