Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten by the thugs who have been Eva’s pimps, they join Bruno’s neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin. In that winter bound, barren prairie, Bruno works as a mechanic, Eva as a waitress. They buy a trailer. Then, bills mount, the bank threatens to repossess the trailer, Eva wants privacy, and inexorably, the promise of a new life deserts Bruno.
Release Date: 12 January 1977Runtime: 115 min
Stars:
- Alfred Edel
- Bob Evans
- Bruno S.
- Burkhard Driest
- Clayton Szalpinski
- Clemens Scheitz
- Ely Rodriguez
- Eva Mattes
- Michael Gahr
- Pit Bedewitz
- Ralph Wade
- Scott McKain
- Vaclav Vojta
- Wilhelm von Homburg
- Yuecsel Topcuguerler
Director: Werner Herzog