Who is Werner Herzog?
He was one of the guiding lights of the New German Cinema of the seventies along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wim Wenders, although Herzogs approach to moviemaking was entirely different than those of Fassbinder or Wenders, or for that matter anyone. An extremely prolific filmmaker, Herzog creates deeply idiosyncratic cinematic meditations like AGUIRRE: THE WRATH OF GOD, THE ENIGMA OF KASPER HAUSER, NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE, STROZEK and FITZCARRALDO. I consider EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL, his second feature, to be one of Herzogs finest films, not to mention one of his most underrated. It was heavily reviled upon its initial release (Herzog reportedly received death threats every night it played) and inexplicably vanished from circulation for decades, at least until Anchor Bays thrice-welcome 1999 DVD release. The Story In the midst of a godforsaken windswept desert, a bunch of dwarfs interned in a secluded insane asylum brutally rebel against the headmaster (a little person himself).
