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* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Eva.
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* TheRez: The ending takes place on a reservation.
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* ThirdPersonPerson: Bruno.
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* KickTheDog: The bank auction of Bruno's trailer as he sadly watches even if there is no malice.
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* KickTheDog: The bank auction of Bruno's trailer as he sadly watches even if there is no malice.intended malice on the banks end.
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* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: Actually, [[PunchClockVillain ordinary bank workers]] [[JustFollowingOrders just doing their jobs.]]
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* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: Actually, [[PunchClockVillain ordinary bank workers]] [[JustFollowingOrders just doing their jobs.]]]] Scott, the bank representative who pays periodic visits to Bruno, Scheitz, and Eva doesn't actually ''want'' to repossess their trailer and TV, but they keep falling behind on the payments, so he eventually has no choice.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Bruno loses Eva who ditches him for trucker drivers, his trailer to the bank, Scheitz who gets arrested for robbing a barber shop (which Bruno participated in), and at the end of the movie kills himself.]]
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* DIYDentistry: In one scene, Scheitz' nephew Clayton removes one of his own teeth with a pair of pliers and spends the next minute or so spitting up blood.
* DownerEnding:[[spoiler: [[spoiler:Eva leaves Bruno loses Eva who ditches him for trucker drivers, a couple of truckers bound for Vancouver, his trailer to is auctioned off by the bank, Scheitz who gets is arrested for robbing armed robbery of a barber shop (which shop, and when Bruno participated in), and at the end runs out of the movie kills himself.money on a reservation in North Carolina, he commits suicide by gunshot in a tourist trap.]]
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* LanguageBarrier: Eva is the only one of the main trio who speaks English. Once she heads to Vancouver with a couple of truckers, neither Bruno nor Scheitz understand the bank representative's explanation of their increasingly dire financial situation.
* MotorMouth: The auctioneer who oversees the sale of the main trio's re-possessed trailer, true to form for his profession, speaks so quickly that even native English speakers will have trouble keeping up.[[note]] His actor, Ralph Wade, was an auctioneer off-screen as well.[[/note]]
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* OrphanageOfFear: Bruno grew up in one run by the Nazis.
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* OrphanageOfFear: Bruno grew up in one run by the Nazis. He tells Eva that anyone who wet their bed had to hold up their sheets in the courtyard to dry instead of putting them on a washing line, and if their arms weakened so that they dropped the wet sheets, they were beaten savagely.
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* FreudianTrio: Superego: Scheitz, Ego: Bruno, Id: Eva.
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* FreudianTrio: Superego: Scheitz, Ego: Bruno, Id: Eva.
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* PowerTrio: Superego: Scheitz, Ego: Bruno, Id: Eva.
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* DownerEnding [[spoiler: Bruno losses Eva who ditches him for trucker drivers, his trailer to the bank, Scheitz who gets arrested for robbing a barber shop (which Bruno participated in), and at the end of the movie kills himself.]]
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* DownerEnding DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Bruno losses loses Eva who ditches him for trucker drivers, his trailer to the bank, Scheitz who gets arrested for robbing a barber shop (which Bruno participated in), and at the end of the movie kills himself.]]
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* TheDanza: Bruno Schleinstein as Bruno Stroszek and Eva Mattes as Eva. In turn, many of the more minor characters are straight up just playing themselves. The film is very nearly a documentary.
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* AmateurCast: Most of the regular Germans and Americans in the film are basically playing themselves.
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* AmateurCastAmateurCast: Most of the regular Germans and Americans in the film are basically playing themselves.
* AsHimself: Bruno Stroszek is basically a thinly veiled version of his actor Bruno Schleinstein. Most of the other actors with the exception of Eva Mattes qualify as well.
* AsHimself: Bruno Stroszek is basically a thinly veiled version of his actor Bruno Schleinstein. Most of the other actors with the exception of Eva Mattes qualify as well.
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* AxCrazy: The pimps whom Eva owes money to are violent lunatics who delight in beating and humiliating their victims.
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* TheDanza: Bruno Schleinstein as Bruno Stroszek and Eva Mattes as Eva. In turn, many of the more minor characters are straight up just playing themselves. The film is very nearly a documentary.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Bruno grew up in an OrphanageOfFear run by the Nazis where the boys were subjected to beatings and public humiliation. No wonder he's an alcoholic who's spent most of his life in and out of jail.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Bruno grew up in an OrphanageOfFear run by the Nazis where the boys were subjected to beatings and public humiliation. No wonder he's an alcoholic who's spent most of his life in and out of jail.
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* FlyoverCountry: The trio settles in an especially bleak part of Wisconsin.
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* OrphanageOfFear: Bruno grew up in one run by the Nazis.
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* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: Actually, [[PunchclockVillain ordinary bank workers]] [[JustFollowingOrders just doing their jobs.]]
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* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: Actually, [[PunchclockVillain [[PunchClockVillain ordinary bank workers]] [[JustFollowingOrders just doing their jobs.]]
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* TheDanza: Bruno Schleinstein as Bruno Stroszek, Eva Mattes as Eva.
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* TypeCasting: Just like in Herzog's ''Theatre/{{Woyzeck}}'', Eva Mattes plays a woman who temporarily has a crazy husband.
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* KickTheDog: while there is no intended malice, watching the bank auction Bruno's trailer as he sadly watches.
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* KickTheDog: while there is no intended malice, watching the The bank auction of Bruno's trailer as he sadly watches.watches even if there is no malice.
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*DownerEnding [[spoiler: Bruno losses Eva who ditches him for trucker drivers, his trailer to the bank, Scheitz who gets arrested for robbing a barber shop (which Bruno participated in), and at the end of the movie kills himself.]]
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*KickTheDog: while there is no intended malice, watching the bank auction Bruno's trailer as he sadly watches.
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* TheRez: The ending takes place on a reservation.
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* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: Actually, [[PunchclockVillain ordinary bank workers]] [[JustFollowingOrders just doing their jobs.]]
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* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: Actually, [[PunchclockVillain ordinary bank workers]] [[JustFollowingOrders just doing their jobs.]]
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* TypeCasting: Just like in Herzog's ''Theatre/{{Woyzeck}}'', Eva Mattes plays a woman who temporarily has a crazy husband.
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* TypeCasting: Just like in Herzog's ''Theatre/{{Woyzeck}}'', Eva Mattes plays a woman who temporarily has a crazy husband.
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* TheAlcoholic: Bruno's alcoholism is the source of many of his problems.
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* BottleFairy: Bruno's alcoholism is the source of many of his problems.
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WernerHerzog film about street musician Bruno Stroszek and his friends. Bruno, [[CoolOldGuy Scheitz]] and [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Eva]] are down on their luck. They move to Wisconsin to escape Eva's abusive pimps. [[DownerEnding Unfortunately]], they aren't quite able to make it in America.
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Natter, and spreading \"legends\" is not worthwhile. Apart from that, coincidence doesn\'t mean causality, so all this is un-interesting.
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** The film's ending appears in ''24 Hour Party People''. Legend has it that Ian Curtis of JoyDivision hanged himself after watching the film on TV. [[AuthorExistenceFailure Obviously we cannot find out whether this is true]].
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Eva a terrible person for running up the bills and simply leaving? Or is living in the middle of nowhere with two obviously crazy men just unbearable?
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* {{Complete Monster}}s: The first thing we see Eva's pimps do is fleece a man out of $10,000 and beat her. They don't get any nicer.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Several. Particularly when a doctor comforts a crying premature baby he was using as an example of the things he couldn't control.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Several. Particularly when a doctor comforts a crying premature baby he was using as an example of the things he couldn't control.
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* TheWoobie: Bruno and Eva both.
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WernerHerzog film about street musician Bruno Stroszek and his friends. Bruno, [[CoolOldGuy Scheitz]] and [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold Eva]] are down on their luck. They move to Wisconsin to escape Eva's abusive pimps. [[DownerEnding Unfortunately]], they aren't quite able to make it in America.
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!! ''Stroszek'' has examples of:
* AmateurCast
* AuthorAppeal: Inverted. The ending makes a little bit more sense if you know that director Werner Herzog has a crippling fear of chickens.
* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: Actually, [[PunchclockVillain ordinary bank workers]] [[JustFollowingOrders just doing their jobs.]]
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Eva a terrible person for running up the bills and simply leaving? Or is living in the middle of nowhere with two obviously crazy men just unbearable?
* BottleFairy: Bruno's alcoholism is the source of many of his problems.
* CloudCuckooLander: Scheitz and Bruno. But especially Scheitz.
* {{Complete Monster}}s: The first thing we see Eva's pimps do is fleece a man out of $10,000 and beat her. They don't get any nicer.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Several. Particularly when a doctor comforts a crying premature baby he was using as an example of the things he couldn't control.
* TheDanza: Bruno Schleinstein as Bruno Stroszek, Eva Mattes as Eva.
* EagleLand: Ultimately averted. The Power Trio's relationships with America as a place and Americans as a people are complicated.
* ForegoneConclusion: Turns out Wisconsin sucks.
* GainaxEnding: After being a slow drama for an entire film, the ending centers on a chicken dancing to Sonny Terry.
** The film's ending appears in ''24 Hour Party People''. Legend has it that Ian Curtis of JoyDivision hanged himself after watching the film on TV. [[AuthorExistenceFailure Obviously we cannot find out whether this is true]].
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Eva.
* LyricalDissonance: The playful melody of the song Bruno sings is at odds with the often downbeat lyrics.
* NostalgicMusicbox: An actual one, and the sounds of them.
* NonActorVehicle: There are few professional actors in the movie.
* PowerTrio: Superego: Scheitz, Ego: Bruno, Id: Eva.
* RegionalRiff: Chet Atkins starts playing as the Power Trio gets used to America.
* RummageSaleReject: Bruno, probably literally.
* TypeCasting: Just like in Herzog's ''Theatre/{{Woyzeck}}'', Eva Mattes plays a woman who temporarily has a crazy husband.
* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Not so bad as some films, but it isn't accidental that the alcoholic Bruno sings a song about a woman who is exploited by an alcoholic.
* TalentDouble: Averted since Bruno was an accomplished street musician by the time.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Bruno.
* TheWoobie: Bruno and Eva both.
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!! ''Stroszek'' has examples of:
* AmateurCast
* AuthorAppeal: Inverted. The ending makes a little bit more sense if you know that director Werner Herzog has a crippling fear of chickens.
* AllDevouringBlackHoleLoanSharks: Actually, [[PunchclockVillain ordinary bank workers]] [[JustFollowingOrders just doing their jobs.]]
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Eva a terrible person for running up the bills and simply leaving? Or is living in the middle of nowhere with two obviously crazy men just unbearable?
* BottleFairy: Bruno's alcoholism is the source of many of his problems.
* CloudCuckooLander: Scheitz and Bruno. But especially Scheitz.
* {{Complete Monster}}s: The first thing we see Eva's pimps do is fleece a man out of $10,000 and beat her. They don't get any nicer.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Several. Particularly when a doctor comforts a crying premature baby he was using as an example of the things he couldn't control.
* TheDanza: Bruno Schleinstein as Bruno Stroszek, Eva Mattes as Eva.
* EagleLand: Ultimately averted. The Power Trio's relationships with America as a place and Americans as a people are complicated.
* ForegoneConclusion: Turns out Wisconsin sucks.
* GainaxEnding: After being a slow drama for an entire film, the ending centers on a chicken dancing to Sonny Terry.
** The film's ending appears in ''24 Hour Party People''. Legend has it that Ian Curtis of JoyDivision hanged himself after watching the film on TV. [[AuthorExistenceFailure Obviously we cannot find out whether this is true]].
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Eva.
* LyricalDissonance: The playful melody of the song Bruno sings is at odds with the often downbeat lyrics.
* NostalgicMusicbox: An actual one, and the sounds of them.
* NonActorVehicle: There are few professional actors in the movie.
* PowerTrio: Superego: Scheitz, Ego: Bruno, Id: Eva.
* RegionalRiff: Chet Atkins starts playing as the Power Trio gets used to America.
* RummageSaleReject: Bruno, probably literally.
* TypeCasting: Just like in Herzog's ''Theatre/{{Woyzeck}}'', Eva Mattes plays a woman who temporarily has a crazy husband.
* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Not so bad as some films, but it isn't accidental that the alcoholic Bruno sings a song about a woman who is exploited by an alcoholic.
* TalentDouble: Averted since Bruno was an accomplished street musician by the time.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Bruno.
* TheWoobie: Bruno and Eva both.
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