

Heart of Glass
A small Bavarian village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.
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- Language
- German
- dreams
- allegory
- hypnosis
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalNR1 Oct 1977
FranceFR
- Theatrical12 Nov 1976
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1617 Dec 1976
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1528 Jan 1977
SwitzerlandCH
- Digital / OTT1617 Oct 2020
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Heart of Glass was released on 12 November 1976.
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CinemaSerf
1/1/2026
Maybe it was Herzog’s 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 it’s artisan “Ruby” glass. The thing is, though, it’s only the factory foreman who knows the secrets of it’s 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 …
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