Huie’s Sermon
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41m
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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