Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Schultze Gets the Blues
2003
**
Director: Michael Schorr
Cast: Horst Krause, Harald Warmbrunn, Karl Fred Müller, Rosemarie Deibel

A laid-off elderly German miner seems literally redundant until he hears some zydeco music and finds new purpose for his life and, er, accordion playing. This moody film offers offbeat moments and dark humour in the opening hour, but the second half in the US is nothing but a series of confounding and directionless vignettes. And if the pace was any slower this would be a two hour still photo.