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 reaches an increasingly fevered, almost crazed crescendo, Herzog offers a portrait of organized religion as a kind of performative spectacle.
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Ballad of the Little Soldier
Directed by Werner Herzog • 1984 • West Germany
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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...
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The Dark Glow of the Mountains
Directed by Werner Herzog • 1985 • West Germany
Werner Herzog’s career-long concern with individuals who test the limits of human achievement receives one of its most extraordinary expressions in this portrait of mountaineers Hans Kammerlander and Reinhold Messner. Following the pair as they emb...
