Directed by Werner Herzog • 1981 • West Germany
Werner Herzog’s portrait of all-American demagoguery focuses on Gene Scott, a televangelist whose fiery on-air tirades—against everything from the FCC to his own viewers—are contrasted with a behind-the-scenes portrait of an isolated, self-obsessed man lost in his own delusions. What emerges is a by turns fascinating and unsettling vision of paranoid charlatanism in the guise of religious zealotry.
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Huie’s Sermon
Directed by Werner Herzog • 1981 • West Germany
Werner Herzog’s fascination with both religious mysticism and American subcultures leads him to a Black church in Brooklyn, where he documents a fire-and-brimstone sermon by the minister Huie L. Rogers. As Rogers’s explosive oratorical style reache...
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Ballad of the Little Soldier
Directed by Werner Herzog • 1984 • West Germany
Focusing on a group of Nicaraguan Miskito Indians embroiled in a civil war against the Sandinistas they once called allies, BALLAD OF THE LITTLE SOLDIER takes an intimate look at the conflict from the perspective of the children being used by the M...
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Where the Green Ants Dream
Directed by Werner Herzog • 1984 • West Germany, Australia
Starring Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy MarikaWerner Herzog heads to the Australian outback for this typically idiosyncratic variation on one of his pet themes: the uneasy relationship between modern man and nature. When an Austra...
