Ludwig

A young man (Otto Sander’s first role) cycles into the village. He passes a herd of cows and two women picking up stones from the fields with their aprons rolled up. His bike is stolen from him while he is playing soccer with some village boys. He chases the thief through the yards and barns of the village. “LUDWIG already shows all the characteristic elements of Roland Klick’s later works: the accuracy of observation, the sometimes shocking cut, the explanation of a character through action and not through words, the emphasis on the physical, the action” (Rudolf Worschech), even the barren landscape and the cold, glaring light of the sun at its zenith at noon.