Underplayed Gems

No One Will Play with Me (1976)

No One Will Play with Me poster
Original title
Mit mir will niemand spielen
Directed by
Werner Herzog
Genre
drama
Country
Germany
Runtime
14 min
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 22 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young boy named Martin is excluded by his classmates at school. The short film looks at his loneliness and his connection with a raven.

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What happens

No One Will Play With Me (German: Mit mir will keiner spielen) is a 1976 short film by Werner Herzog. The film focuses on a boy, Martin, who is outcast from the other children at his school. The film was made with pre-school children in Munich, and is partially based on true stories which Herzog heard from the children themselves. The use of a raven as a central plot element was inspired by the story of the raven from Herzog's earlier film The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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