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Even Dwarfs Started Small
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| Even Dwarfs Started Small | |
|---|---|
 Helmut Döring as Hombré |
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| Directed by | Werner Herzog |
| Written by | Werner Herzog |
| Starring | Helmut Döring |
| Music by | Florian Fricke |
| Cinematography | Thomas Mauch |
| Release date(s) | 1970 |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Language | German |
| IMDb profile | |
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen) is a 1970 film by German director Werner Herzog.
A group of dwarfs and midgets confined in an institution on a remote island rebel against the guards and director (all dwarfs as well) in a display of raw and nonsensical violence (setting fire to the building, making a car run in circle, crucifying a monkey, making fun of a camel, etc.)
- While filming the scene where a van drove in circles with no one at the wheel, one of the actors was run over, but immediately stood up uninjured.
- During the flower burning scene, the same actor caught fire and Werner Herzog raced over and beat the fire out. The actor only had minor injuries from the fire.
- After the two accidents, Werner Herzog promised the actors that if they made it through the rest of filming without any more injuries he would jump into a cactus patch and allow the actors to film him doing so. The film was finished without any further injuries and the director made good his promise and dove into the cacti. Herzog said, "Getting out of the cactus patch was much harder than diving in."
- During the production of this film, the woman who reads the pornographic magazine with Hombre on the white bed fell in love with a crew man who was working on the film. Herzog described this as a true tragedy seeing as the man was well over six foot tall and the woman was just over two feet.
- The movie was filmed in the Canary Islands.
- The DVD includes a commentary, mediated by Crispin Glover
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