Heart of Glass
Heart of Glass

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- 68/100 based on 6,413 votes
  • Released: 1976
  • Runtime: 94 mins
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  • Studio: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
  • Genres: Drama

A small 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.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Heart of Glass:

Josef Bierbichler
Stefan Güttler
Clemens Scheitz
Sonja Skiba
Volker Prechtel
Brunhilde Klöckner

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A small 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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MovieMartyr.com - 10/10 by Jeremy HeilmanBecause of its utter uniqueness, it's expansive vision, and its stone-gazed look at the downfall that very possibly awaits our race, Heart of Glass is a must-see.
Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertI think it should be approached like a piece of music, in which we comprehend everything in terms of mood and aura, and know how it makes us feel even if we can't say what it makes us think.
Film Freak Central - 9/10 by Walter ChawThe artist as the bridge connecting the head in ascendance and the heart of glass.
Chicago Reader - 8/10 by Dave KehrA visionary film (1976) that fails to cast a spell and so remains rather lifeless -- a problem compounded by the fact that all the actors are performing under hypnosis.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 6/10 by Dennis SchwartzIn this intense documentary, Herzog had his actors perform under hypnosis.
Playback:stl - 6/10 by Sarah Boslaugh...the sequences of [Wintrebert] and other glass artists at work in the studio more than carry the day.
User Review - 10/10 by Knox MHerzog takes his craft to the next level in his most cerebral film, a terrifyingly topical reflection on humanity's increasing over-reliance on technology, and 90 minute odyssey that details, without any large change of time, our evolution as a species. The true companion piece to 2001.
User Review - 10/10 by Darren ENothing to do with Blondie, this is a story of the insanity that takes over an 18th century Bavarian village when the foreman of the glasswork takes the secret of the town?s famed Ruby Glass to his grave. It?s a mesmerizing film, in the true sense of the word. Werner Herzog has often sought to induce a state of trance in his audience; this one is no different, but he ups the ante by also hypnotizing most of his cast. It?s a technique that could very easily have been a gimmick, but it really pays off, creating a unique, otherworldly atmosphere and a captivating set of intense, disturbingly detached performances. The hypnosis also adds to the allegorical nature of the film: modernity and the industrial revolution are viewed as collective madnesses in which we all sleepwalk towards our doom despite the warnings that are issued to us. Herzog captures some of the most extraordinarily haunting images ever committed to celluloid, and there is a premonition of Grizzy Man near the end when the character of the visionary goes off into the mountains to fight an imaginary bear. Needless to say, its obviously not for all tastes.
User Review - 10/10 by Pavandeep SWatching this brought back lots of memories and it was memories of the peculiar cinema of Herzog. He is by far, one of the more strange of film-makers I have seen. Sometimes I wonder if by working in Hollywood now and in English has any effect on his quality as it feels like to see a full 100% of him is so much more worthy than even a slight drop.I don't know, but lots of his early films, are some of the most memorable of films I have ever encountered.
User Review - 10/10 by Wahida KThis is notoriously considered Herzog's most cryptic film; indeed, it's the one where he hypnotized much of the cast which gives it a hallucinatory and static feel. I am not sure what to say, except it's a highly demented look at the collective madness that overcomes a town as well as, paradoxically, a moving film about getting lost in apocalyptic fantasies. The last ten minutes are completely stunning.

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