Hello.
Do you know Heart of Glass / Herz aus Glas by Werner Herzog?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Glass_%28film%29
Santa brought me 2 dvd-boxes loaded with films by Werner Herzog (with and
without Klaus Kinski). Herzog is my all-time favorite director. German art
films from 1970's!
In this very special film a h-g is played in a bierstube for some three
minutes. The player obviously knows what he does and the instrument sounds like
one you could imagine to be played in a late 18th/early 19th century Bavarian
bierstube. I mean that you can hear that the player is familiar with this
instrument both technically and musically. Quite the contrary than in most
cases of h-gs in films.
You can see this scene with hg quite exactly 1 hour from the beginning -but all the film is well worth seeing.
Esa Mäkinen
Finland
