Game in the Sand

Infobox film
name = Game in the Sand
director = Werner Herzog
writer = Werner Herzog
producer = Werner Herzog
cinematography =Jaime Pachecocite book
last = Herzog
first = Werner
title = Herzog on Herzog
publisher = Faber and Faber
date = 2001
pages = 303
isbn = 0-571-20708-1 ]
editing = Werner Herzog
music = Uwe Brandner
runtime = 14 minutes
released = unreleased, filmed in 1964
imdb_id = 0058607

"Game in the Sand" ( _de. Spiel im Sand) is an unreleased short film written and directed by Werner Herzog in 1964. The plot concerns four children and a rooster in a cardboard box [ [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/06/herzog.html Werner Herzog ] ] , and includes a scene where the chicken is buried in sand up to its neck. [Werner Herzog audio commentary on DVD release of "Signs of Life"] Very little information about the film and its production is known.

The film has never been published or publicly exhibited, and Herzog has stated that he will never give it a release in his lifetime. Herzog says that the shooting "got out of hand," in a way which caused him to abandon the project. He has likened the shoot to controversial moments in his later film "Even Dwarfs Started Small", such as young piglets suckling on the corpse of a dead mother pig, and cannibalistic chickens, or when an actor was accidentally set on fire and run over by a truck. [Werner Herzog audio commentary on DVD release of "Even Dwarfs Started Small"] These moments were allowed a release in "Dwarfs", but Herzog decided that the footage of "Game in the Sand" was not fit for release.

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*imdb title|id=0058607|title=Spiel im Sand