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Thomas Mauch
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s, an adolescent Werner Herzog was transfixed by a film performance of the young Klaus Kinski. Years later, they would share an apartment where, in an unabated, forty-eight-hour fit of rage, Kinski completely destroyed the bathroom. From this chaos, a violent, love-hate, profoundly creative partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). Four more films would follow. In this personal documentary, Herzog...
2) Stroszek
Language
Deutsch
Description
After being released from prison, Berlin street musician Bruno Stroszek finds himself lost in a world where he simply doesn't belong. So along with his prostitute girlfriend and an eccentric neighbor, Stroszek moves to America, where he's told, everyone is rich. It doesn't take long, however, after moving into a mobile home and taking a job as a mechanic, for Stroszek to realize that the streets of Railroad, Wisconsin aren't paved with gold.
3) Short films
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The first film is about Walter Steiner, a Swiss woodcarver and world class ski jumper. The second film is a visit to the annual world championship of livestock auctioneers in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. La Soufrière is about the anticipated eruption of a volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and the man who chooses to stay behind when everyone else evacuates.
Series
Criterion collection volume 287
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Walter Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo is the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects.
For nearly five years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog desperately tried to complete one of the most ambitious and difficult films of his career--Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera...
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Hermann and Clarissa, the star-crossed lovers of Heimat II meet on the evening of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Caught up in the euphoria over the reunification of their country, the couple reunites as well. They settle in a romantic old house high above the Rhine Valley in the Hunsruck, which draws family and friends from far and wide. The 200-year old, timber-framed house acts as a hub for the characters, whose stories of love, success, family,...
Series
Reference guides of the German Historical Institute volume no. 12
Publisher
German Historical Institute
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
