Heart of Glass (German: Herz aus Glas) is a 1976 German film directed and produced by Werner Herzog, set in 18th century Bavaria. The film was written by Herzog, based partly on a story by Herbert Achternbusch. The main character is Hias, based on …

Mar 23, 2011 · Werner Herzog’s “Heart of Glass” (1976) is a vision of man’s future as desolation. In a film set entirely in a Bavarian village around 1800, it foresees the wars and calamities of the next two centuries and extends on into the 21st with humanity’s nightfall.

Heart of Glass: Directed by Werner Herzog. With Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Clemens Scheitz, Volker Prechtel. The foreman of a small village glassworks dies without revealing the secret to the famous "Ruby Glass".

Sep 2, 2021 · Heart of Glass remains notorious as the film for which Herzog hypnotized his entire cast, resulting in bizarre and trancelike performances. The film is all too often overlooked beyond this...

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May 24, 2012 · The plot is simple and beside the point: in a Bavarian village in the late 18 th century, a glassmaker dies and takes to his grave the secret of his ruby glass. The glass factory owner goes mad trying to unearth the formula. As he goes, so too goes the village.

Werner Herzog brings to life a story about a village whom loses its lifes blood when the glass blower whom made the town famous for producing "Ruby Glass" dies before sharing the secret process behind creating this much sought after art glass!

Of all the (many) crazy ways Werner Herzog has made his films, this must be one of the strangest. For this story of madness and prophecy, made at his peak, he had almost all the cast act while under hypnosis. The result: bizarre, appropriately trance-like …

A small village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.