Even Dwarfs Started Small

1970 [GERMAN]

Comedy / Drama

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 6669 6.7K

Director

Top cast

Gerhard Maerz as Territory
Alfredo Piccini as Anselmo
Gerd Gickel as Pepe
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881.8 MB
1280*962
German 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 2
1.6 GB
1438*1080
German 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Leofwine_draca 6 / 10

A work of visual artistry, for those who can stand animal cruelty

A typically thought-provoking movie from German art-house director Werner Herzog. This is one of his earliest productions and it shows in the black and white photography and the single-location shooting (in Lanzarote, no less), but nonetheless it turns out to be just as well put together as the later, bigger movies in the director's resume.Like the 1938 western THE TERROR OF TINY TOWN before it, EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL is a film entirely cast with dwarf and midget actors. As with most Herzog movies, much of the fun comes from deciphering the hidden meanings; this one's an allegory about mankind's cruelty to those less than himself, destruction of the environment, and Herzog's overriding theory that the natural state of things is chaos. It has similarities to the two documentaries Herzog made about disability and much in common with the later STROSZEK too.It's a difficult film to define too much, but as a work of visual style it's certainly electrifying. Herzog captures memorable image after memorable image, and that haunting laugh by Helmut Doring stays in your memory long after. The only reason I can't rate this film higher is that I'm no fan of animal cruelty, and there's a lot of it here, so much that it becomes impossible to ignore towards the end. But that last scene is almost as memorably kooky as STROSZEK's.
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Reviewed by juanathan 8 / 10

Herzog's most powerful imagery yet

Werner Herzog's sophomore effort is probably his most bizarre to date. The whole cast is compromised of dwarfs who take over an institution and wreak havoc. This treat for Herzog fans is very entertaining.

The film does have its problems though. The first half hour is hard to sit through but this is the type of film that gets better as it goes on. Also, I was expecting more of an ending. The ending, although funny, seems that it just does not fit and ended too abruptly.

As I said in my title, I think this has Herozg's most powerful images. With the dwarfs wreaking havoc and celebrating with smiles on their while African tribe music is playing, the scenes are very bizarrely beautiful. The movie is very entertaining and very funny. Hombre has probably the best laugh I have ever heard in my life. He definitely brings real evil to the film. The cinematography is great (yeah, what else is new in a Herzog film?). The message of the film is also very profound.

Although this is definitely not Herzog's best, it is one hell of a trip!

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