Even Dwarfs Started Small

Even Dwarfs Started Small is a 1970 West German absurdist comedy-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog. Plot Dwarfs confined in an institution on a remote island rebel against the guards and director, also dwarfs, in a display of mayhem. They gleefully break windows and dishes, cackle maniacally, abandon a running truck to drive itself in circles, engineer food fights and cock fights, look at pin-up magazines, set fire to pots of flowers, kill a large pig, torment some blind dwarfs, and perform a mock crucifixion of a monkey. Cast Helmut Döring as Hombré Paul Glauer as Erzieher Gisela Hertwig as Pobrecita Hertel Minkner as Chicklets Gertrud Piccini as Piccini Marianne Saar as Theresa Brigitte Saar as Cochina Gerd Gickel as Pepe Erna Gschwendtner as Azucar Production