How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck?
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46m
Directed by Werner Herzog • 1976 • West Germany
Werner Herzog heads to New Holland, Pennsylvania, to document the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship, focusing on the strange, staccato musicality of the language of auctioneering: in his words, “the last poetry possible, the poetry of capitalism.” Contrasting the event with a portrait of the Amish who live nearby, Herzog arrives at a unique, almost ethnographic vision of America as he sees it.
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