Werner Herzog might be most renowned for the filmic results of his conflicts with Klaus Kinski, but the two films he made featuring the inimitable Bruno S - - The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser and this 1977 offering - - are just as extraordinary. Here, Bruno, a whore (Eva Mattes) and an old man (Clemens Scheitz) leave Berlin to track down the American dream. Instead, they end up in Railroad Flats, Wisconsin, where poverty forces them to attempt the shoddiest bank robbery ever. The resulting sense of despair is balanced by an aura of human durability and great empathy, best realised in a terribly moving, poetic sequence involving a premature child.
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