WERNER HERZOG DOCUMENTARIES 1968 - 1984

Director: Werner Herzog

DVD

SUMMARY:

One of the greatest and most original of documentary filmmakers - a celluloid conquistador with an extreme and tragic sense of life. - Village Voice

Werner Herzog is a cinematic hero, a true documentary cinema artist and one of the planet's most important post-war European filmmakers. - IDFA

VIDEO:

• Last Words 1968
• Measures Against Fanatics 1969
• Fata Morgana 1971
• Land of silence and darkness 1971
• Great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner 1974
• How Much Wood Would A Woodchuck Chuck 1976
• God's angry man 1980
• Ballad of the little soldier 1984

Other films from this period (No video)

• The Flying Doctors of East Africa 1969
• Handicapped Future 1971
• La Soufrière 1977
• Huie's Predigt 1980

REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, CREDITS:

• IDFA Masterclass with Werner Herzog (VIDEO interview 2 hours)

NOTES:

• 'Minnesota declaration: truth and fact in documentary cinema'
• Herzog, who dismisses "so-called cinema vérité" as "the truth of accountants," maintains that his own documentaries are predicated on "imagination" and "fabrication."
• "Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offended, planets that do not exist yet, dreamed landscapes. Very few people seek these images today." - Werner Herzog
• Health - "Heaven" music video made from footage taken from 'Great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner'