Die Beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreuz
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Die Beispiellose Verteidigung der Festung Deutschkreuz

1967
Short Film
15m
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Rated 25 Jul 2007
60
54th
The footage is fine, but it's the deranged narration that makes this one worthwhile. I love it when the guy laughs! Herzog being imaginative as always.
Rated 21 May 2012
63
26th
Even with its short running, this film gave me the sense of an odd, albeit subtle, detachment from reality. That's what Herzog does best. Here he uses footage of mischievous young men trespassing in an abandoned castle, dressing up in old military garb and acting like soldiers, and it's overlaid with narration that seems to suggest these men are living out some necessary need for war. This is a sparse, slight film, but it's Herzog-y enough to be watchable.
Rated 05 Nov 2014
5
70th
strange. the narration often has nothing to do with the images, and is a mixture of wryness and randomness. i liked his laugh.
Rated 17 Feb 2016
80
76th
Four young men break into an abandoned fortress, dress up in old soldiers' uniforms and play out a fantasy of defending it against imagined attackers. This short is full of absurdity and humour, but its most endearing quality for me is the way in which it captures our capacity to use our environment to fully immerse ourselves in/entertain ourselves with our imagination.
Rated 09 Apr 2018
66
36th
A cruel and wry joke about insularity breeding hostility. Or something. Typically mad and abstract experimentalism from young Herzog. Whether you get this type of humour or not it does come across as kinda random and nonsensical although darkly amusing and adventurous as well. You can definately see the spark of Herzog's genious in these early shorts but it's not really used in any coherent way.
Rated 08 Dec 2007
56
12th
This early short by Werner Herzog appears to be largely improvised... some guys (college buddies of Herzog's, perhaps) fuck around in an old fortress, find some uniforms and weapons, and play at war. The narration also seems to be some guy just riffing on what he sees, although this might be more written than the action. It's hard to tell, and hard to care. Nothing much going on here, but at only 15 minutes, it's tolerable for the curious.
Rated 26 Feb 2009
45
31st
For fans of director Werner Herzog.
Rated 13 Jan 2015
11
16th
german humour
Rated 02 May 2020
80
88th
A contemplation of warfare and the romanticisation of what this has meant and might entail in the future. The ridiculous nature of war - one's ally can becomes one's enemy in an instant - but the allure of achieving at least something. Just as soon at it starts, it is over for the menacing tractor has appeared on the horizon!

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