Geronimo1967
Maybe it was Herzogs intention, but I will admit to a degree of confusion as the credits rolled on this. On the face of it, it is about a village famed for its artisan Ruby glass. The thing is, though, its only the factory foreman who knows the secrets of its manufacture and when he dies the rest of the place fears the worst. Hias (Josef Bierbichler) seems to have some gift of prophecy and is certainly not a man whose glass is half full. Indeed he rather ominously portends poverty and gloom for the villagers - a fate even more doom-laden than just not having the Ruby. In so far as that linear storyline might have laid a bedrock for the film, then I was on board. However, that thread becomes less and less relevant to the character emphasis a...