Directed by Werner Herzog • 2005 • United Kingdom, France, Germany
Starring Brad Dourif, Donald Williams, Ellen Baker
Werner Herzog’s ability to find otherworldly wonder wherever he points his camera is on display in this sublime experimental science-fiction odyssey, in which he makes striking use of documentary footage—drawn from everything from NASA space-shuttle missions to underwater Antarctic expeditions—to tell the story of an alien refugee (Brad Dourif) from an extinct planet who observes, with rueful sadness, humanity’s own quest to seek a world beyond Earth. The result is a thought-provoking meditation on climate collapse, the fragility of existence, and the search for life amid the vastness of the cosmos.
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Stroszek
Directed by Werner Herzog • 1977 • West Germany
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Woyzeck
Directed by Werner Herzog • 1979 • West Germany
Starring Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang ReichmannWerner Herzog ventured into the dark depths of madness once again with this adaptation of the unfinished stage play by Georg Buchner, the story of a real-life nineteenth-century barber turned...
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God’s Angry Man
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...
