Heart of Glass tells the story of a small town that loses the secret of making its unique Ruby glass, and the townspeople who turn to murder and magic to recover it. Herzog actually hypnotized his actors to convey, in his words, "an atmosphere of hallucination, of prophecy...and collective madness." "It's hard to imagine that anyone other than Herzog would have wanted to make a film like Heart of Glass," Time Out Film Guide writes. "It's certainly extremely bizarre, but by no means unapproachable....Any film that dares to hover so close to sheer absurdity needs—and deserves—a sympathetic audience."
1976, color, 1 hour 33 minutes, Germany