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Heart of Glass

Cast

Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Guttler, Clemens Scheitz, Sonja Skiba View All

Crew

Werner Herzog (Director), Werner Herzog (Writer), Herbert Achternbusch (Writer) View All

Release: Nov. 12th, 1976

Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutes

A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" 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 obssessed with the lost secret.

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Takoma11
In a small town, the owner of a glass factory has died, unexpectedly taking the secret of the town's famed Ruby Glass with him.

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Torgo
Moody, deliberate, odd and always fascinating, this movie contemplates our planet's cycle of decline, doom and rebirth in the most Werner Herzog of ways: by observing the decline of a tiny Bavarian town as its vital glassblowing industry fails.