Stroszek (1977)

Some people should never appear in more than one film (you might argue that some people should never appear in any film! -- and I could name a few).  That is a case in point here with Bruno S., an ex-mental patient and streetsinger, who was unforgettable in "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser" where he was playing some sort of idiot savant.  However he really can not carry a film on his own as Herzog asks him to do in this German road movie.  Just released from prison he joins up with a battered prostitute and an eccentric elderly man who decide to seek a better and richer life in America where the old guy has relatives.  They end up in rural, dreary Wisconsin of all places and fail to find the American dream,  Getting themselves into a financial mess with smiling bank managers, she runs off, the old man gets arrested for armed robbery, and Bruno drives off until his van gives up and we are left in a somewhat frenetic end scene involving dancing chickens!  It was probably intended as some sort of indictment of materialism, but only worked in very small measures.  Herzog was far more productive with good old nutty Klaus Kinski.