26 films¹ – 13 DVD
Remastered, with subtitles in 10 different languages (German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Italian, Turkish)
BONUSMATERIAL
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I am my films, part 2, 30 years later
Christian Weisenborn in discussion with Werner Herzog about his documentary work of the past 30 years, DVD 97 min.
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ECSTASY AND TRUTH
Monograph by Grazia Paganelli on Werner Herzog and his documentary work, German, English, Italian
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4 films about Werner Herzog
Including part 1 of "I am my films" (1976-78) by Christian Weisenborn and a portrait by Peter Buchka
The documentary work by Werner Herzog
between 1962 and 2005
containing 22 documentaries and shorts, can be discovered anew in this extensive DVD Edition, produced by Werner Herzog Film and the Goethe Institute.
Besides the 22 films by Werner Herzog, the edition also offers 4 documentaries by other filmmakers about Werner Herzog and his work.
A new Documentary on Werner Herzog
by Christian Weisenborn
Christian Weisenborn and Werner Herzog know each other for more than 40 years. His first film on Werner Herzog "I am my films" (1976-78) covered Herzog's beginning as a filmmaker, the new film is a sequel titled "I am my films, part 2, -30 years later-" in which Weisenborn talks about Werner Herzog as a documentarian of the past 30 years.
Monograph on the documentary work
by Grazia Paganelli
The international well know film historian Grazia Paganelli is the author of the monograph on the documentary work of Werner Herzog. Grazia Paganelli is head of programming at the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin and she contributes regularly to various film publications. Besides her other work she has written Eric Von Stroheim. Lo sguardo e l'iperbole (2001) Il vento e la città. Il cinema di Amir Naderi (in collaboration with Massimo Causo, 2006), Segni di vita - Werner Herzog e il cinema (2008), Una diagonale baltica. Cinquant’anni di produzione documentaria in Estonia, Lettonia e Lituania (2008) and, in collaboration with Carlo Chatrian Manga Impact. _ e World of Japanese Animation, 2010.
¹ List of films DVD Edition 13 DVD
Herakles (1962)
Fata Morgana (1970)
La Soufrière (1977)
Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
Bells from the Deep (1993)
Last Words (1967)
Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
Huie´s Sermon (1980)
God´s Angry Man (1980)
Precautions against Fanatics (1969)
The unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreutz (1966)
Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990)
Ballade of the little Soldier (1984)
Little Dieter needs to fly (1973)
The great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1973)
Gasherbrum - The dark glow of the mountain (1984)
Wings of Hope (1999)
Gesualdo (1995)
The White Diamond (2004)
The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
I am my films - part 1 (1976-78)
I am my films - part 2 (2010)
Bis ans Ende und dann noch weiter, Portrait by Peter Buchka
Werner Herzog, Filmmaker
Ecstasy and Truth, Monograph