A short film by Werner Herzog. The film focuses on a boy, Martin, who is outcast from the other children at his school. The film was made with pre-school children in Munich, and is partially based on true stories which Herzog heard from the children themselves. The use of a raven as a central plot element was inspired by the story of the raven from Herzog’s earlier film The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner.
Love this little film. In fact, recommended it to a children’s literature agent, only recently…Apparently, Herzog himself kept a raven as a boy. He ‘gave’ this detail to Steiner, and again to Martin. PS. I like this blog.