
A group of inhabitants of a correctional colony for people of small stature raises a riot against the local order. Tired of adhering to the many rules that require good behavior from them, they decide to become bad. Their immediate leader (also a dwarf) is forced to take refuge in one of the premises while waiting for the police to arrive. Meanwhile, the rioters are having fun: they beat dishes and glasses, start a car and eventually break it, kill a big pig, scoff at blind d... (Full plot summary below)
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A group of inhabitants of a correctional colony for people of small stature raises a riot against the local order. Tired of adhering to the many rules that require good behavior from them, they decide to become bad. Their immediate leader (also a dwarf) is forced to take refuge in one of the premises while waiting for the police to arrive. Meanwhile, the rioters are having fun: they beat dishes and glasses, start a car and eventually break it, kill a big pig, scoff at blind dwarfs living next door, arrange cockfights, set fire to flowerpots with their favorite colors, and so on.
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| Not Coming to a Theater Near YouLeo GoldsmithPatient and unrelenting, Herzog stages a total deterioration of narrative logic and social norms, as emblematized by a crucified monkey and a cannibalizing chicken. |
| Apollo GuideDan JardineGobsmackingly good. A great and terrible film. |
| New York TimesVincent CanbyEven Dwarfs Started Small eventually is indistinguishable from its Germanic, side-show spectacle, as if it were a movie that had been conceived by the same kind of perverse, uninvolved intelligence that had created the world of the film. |
| User ReviewJordan HHerzog's jape on revolutionaries without a cause, inspired, in part, by "Freaks". |
| User Reviewcli oNot easy to watch, though it's imagery is that of a nightmare, so what do you expect. Must be seen to be believed. What a unique production. |
| User ReviewToni HThere is something beyond hypnotic about this movie. It constantly feels dream like and almost nightmarish. The film centers on the chaos of the uprising on inhabitants of an island. The laugh of the one little old man is the best and when he gets a case of the giggles its gold. There is so much to dig in this movie |
| User ReviewSeth SThis is a fantastic film. One of my favorites. |
| User ReviewDamien Adia MThis is a masterpiece that nothing i've ever seen (nor i presume will ever see) can rival. There are certain images, epiphanies, threats, warnings, unrests that vent from the volcanic craters of this film's demented logic. |
| User ReviewJames WCreepy as shit and fantastic to boot. Another Herzog masterpiece. |
| User ReviewJoseph SNumber one in the criminally little-known dwarf-prison genre. Perfect following the birth of your second child. |