When the secret of “Ruby Glass” dies with its maker, a village unravels in Herzog’s hypnotic fable of obsession, fragility and fate.
In a remote Bavarian village, the foreman of a glassworks dies without revealing the formula for the prized “Ruby Glass.” As the factory fails and livelihoods crumble, the community spirals into despair and delusion. In true Werner Herzog fashion, the story drifts beyond plot into something stranger: a haunting study of faces, faith, madness and collective collapse an eerie meditation on dependency and doom.
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Herzog at his most enigmatic and mesmeric. Less a conventional drama than a waking dream, this is cinema as fever vision unnerving, absurd, and impossible to shake.
