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Signs of Life (VHS, 1995)

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Leading Role: Peter Brogle

Director: Werner Herzog

Rating: Not Rated

Release Date: Oct 1995

Format: VHS

UPC: 717119221539

Product ID: EPID3237319

Description: Werner Herzog made his directing debut with this meditation on war and madness. During World War II, three German soldiers--one of them wounded--take refuge on a small Greek island that remains relatively untouched by the fighting. The b...

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Werner Herzog made his directing debut with this meditation on war and madness. During World War II, three German soldiers--one of them wounded--take refuge on a small Greek island that remains relatively untouched by the fighting. The boredom of their isolated post and meaningless assignment leads to an inevitable crumbling of sanity. Each begins to construct elaborate strategies to dispel the boredom and keep the mental horrors of the war at bay. The psychology of the men and their trying situation are compellingly portrayed through their methods of occupying themselves, from building cockroach-catching contraptions to translation of ancient Greek texts on local church walls to the construction of bombs from the detritus of the ammunitions dump. SIGNS OF LIFE was Herzog's first feature film, made at the age of 19, and thus is perhaps his most conventional, sticking to a traditional psychological drama format. However, the idiosyncrasies and dramatic invention that would follow in his career are present in seed form in the director's scrupulous attention to the minutiae of the characters' descent into disturbance as well as in the role played by the astounding Greek landscape.

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Producer:	Werner Herzog
Cast:	Athina Zacharopoulou

Notes
Theatrical release: June 25th, 1968 (Berlin).

SIGNS OF LIFE was Werner Herzog's first feature film, he was 19 years old when he completed it.

Shot between June and September 1967.

The film won the following prizes: Carl Mayer-Drehbuchpreis 1968 for Werner Herzog; IFF Berlin 1968; Silberner Bar (Directing); Deutscher Filmpreis 1968; and Filmband in Silber.

Editorial Reviews
"...Bleakly funny....A devastatingly amusing one-man show." -- Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly - Lawrence O'Toole (11/10/1995)

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