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valid have the film legend the german director has made over 70 films ranging from art house to big hollywood productions he's traveled to the ends of the earth and peered into the depths of the human soul. he mentions that movie the most. he's created iconic characters to images in feature films and documentaries. always searching for a deeper truth his perspective is investigative and radically subjective van i have song of the adventurer. we met up with this great cinematic storyteller in munich where his story began.

when did it become clear to you that you had to and could make films. when i was around 14 or 15 years old when various things happened at the same time which made my fate apparent to me. among them was that i would make films that i was also a kind of poet so the. and it was always clear to me that i would do this better than others. it was also clear that since i knew little about film and had seen almost nothing i would have to invent cinema myself. if i was.

very 1st feature film was a declaration of war on the triviality of post-war german cinema. and this anarchic surreal and disturbing drama about towards raising a riot at a correctional facility caused controversy upon its release in 1970. showing the point of view of outsiders and people on society it's fringes became head songs trademark. in $197900.00 least nosferatu his all mushed f. w. moore now silent film classic much more than a remake it was his 1st big international production the night it suited could be duty. it could give you personally. please let me do it. oh forget it it's hardly worth mentioning just

a little cut. even you know as i feel you've lived in los angeles in the heart of the dream factory for many years. you've said you don't really feel part of the german film scene but in the us you enjoy a cult status as a bavarian in hollywood hollywood. since 1st since even because you know the cult status is a term you should only touch with pincers but it gets really wild when i show up in brazil for example or in russia poland ireland or algeria all hell breaks loose when i show up there with films. you say i'm part of the city with the dream factory but no i'm not part of it and i don't really belong to german film either. i actually belong to something more regional to the variant films from the baroque can the world weary and that's why i sometimes say that apart from me vic the 2nd

would have been the only person able to make its car all go. it's going to do more who couldn't. fitzcarraldo is the story of an eccentric adventurer aiming to build an opera house in the amazon rain forest. it's clear although it was a visionary with a mission. yes but they felt that something was coming and. someone who is prepared to defy gravity to realize his life's dream pushing boundaries is a constant theme and hair talks work. he's into if you've been in extreme environments extreme situations what drives you to this day to seek out these extremes. he says. i don't actually see context.

rather i consider what i do to be normal. people are always saying shooting in the amazon rain forest is so extreme. but look it's just a forest. so this is more involved. katsav return to the jungle again for the vietnam war drama rescue dawn that was a big american production but headlock is also a nonconformist in hollywood for. the very end with the will of it's all. there. and the passion for unhinged characters. and their pockets. not just. with the. you called bad lieutenant of a very in film. it's a wild and baroque. wilder than the wildest drinkers at october fest it really goes

to extremes and. back to the big. surely guess what full soul still dancing. see how you never went to film school thank goodness see how you don't think much of them schools why. i think they're completely misconceived. and basically poor film students are cooped up there for way too long. for 3 or 4 years. in 3 or 4 years they could shoot 3 features instead of sitting around there learning film theory or other such nonsense. and soon they could learn everything they need to know in a week so everything else is technical can be left to the technicians and take this disconnect in to. see if you can learn about filmmaking from veron or has

a song on line for example to work use a storyboard i think it's an instrument of the cowards you can learn the same sorts of filmmaking. but there's more skip the rope film school i founded the rogue film school. it was designed to be the exact opposite of everything you'd normally learn in film school and. the same i'm kinda give us there are only 2 things i tell people there really learn. the 1st time out or pick a safety lock using a surgical instrument. and 2nd how to fake a filming permit to not get caught. in lets recently i've switched to doing more workshops. those are just is something in the amazon rainforest in peru. and in the 1st minute of the 1st meeting i said

the topic of your show. the framework is delirium in the jungle. see what you can come up with and deliver the results in 9 days' time and some great films came out of it with. a good eye the wrath of god was also shot in the south american jungle it's the tale of a 16th century spanish conquistador searching for el dorado this feverish drama tackles imperialism greed and meddling mania shot in documentary style to follow a good day on his historical suicide mission. in the end klaus kinski a good day goes mad in a scene that wrote film history. caught . us with. a good eye and later

fitzcarraldo r.t. made headlines during shooting largely due to the unpredictable lead actor klaus kinski he made 5 films with parents on who works through their productive love hate relationship in a documentary. they don't let you know probably going to has or doesn't already know with and that's where the rich person that's where you know me i started mom how do you know it's getting tackled by some of the document that ended up was that you know. i was not in looking for our choice i thought i didn't want to join the sports committee and i'm interested in can. be sucked into these and the 2nd i know you've got this feeling. something in the last didn't get lost in the star they're still actors as extreme as class kinski was. infin didn't. consider him extreme. he was kinski and in a certain sense he was a singular figure but he wasn't the best actor i worked with. the deepest and best

one was prono s. who played the title roles in constable house. i've worked at the world's best with christian bale. nicolas cage nicole nicole kidman. tom cruise it is then no one. not any one of them. ever came close to porno as is the charisma. or his ability to convey isolation and ferocity to right this blog that was likely due to his real life fake musicianship practically 23 years after strong from his childhood onwards he kept getting put away in correctional institutions and later in jail and then other places where he didn't belong. then just see i

mean my. view in this case it's still a little subtle you have picked to finish it it looks a little. bit on the side it didn't i didn't think. just listening to stuff i could fit just least. to speak to the listener see not just a fairly good. there are others who have similar biographies but who don't have the depth and presence onscreen employ no a stand. pales in comparison. as does nicholas cage nicolas cage and tom cruise to. vanish outside work with tom cruise on the action thriller jack reacher but this time hats on stood in front of the camera playing an evil gang leader. spent my 1st winter. coat

holding. case before the frostbite could turn and dream. the housing to how did you manage to be that evil. or was it was ever atlas so totally effortless work so i didn't have to do a screen test and i knew that i could do it with come to us i earn good money for being terrifying on screen if you want to see him she. didn't. that he said. when so many other stick not. van i have thought has his own unique perspective on the world and people his documentaries also focus on eccentric and obsessive types like fanatical animal rights activist timothy treadwell. i'm here with one of my favorite pairs express the chocolate

iris chocolate has been with me for the grizzly man spent his summers in alaska and lost all sense of distance between himself and the bears examples out there. that are in the end he was himself killed by a bear. my mind. on that jury after treadwell death in 2003 hertzog followed his trail right to the bitter and. escaped and. before towards from the movie traitor and so there's an audio recording of the death of timothy treadwell and his girlfriend and. you both of them were eaten by a bear eaten alive piece by piece the law you call duty and the distributors and producers absolutely want to destroy cording to be in the film and so i said ok i'll listen to it. and i listen to it and it was so incredibly horrifying that i

said only over my dead body will this make it into the film that he come to see an infant can turn into. it. too must never listen to this i know her and have her go into. this and you should not keep it you should destroy it you know. ethical boundary. because the dignity and privacy surrounding an individual's death must not be violated. period. it. didn't shy away from interviewing condemned prisoners awaiting execution for as

many series on death row. coming from a different historical background and being a guest in the united states i respectfully disagree with the practice of capital punishment. i have watched several episodes of your series on death row what boundaries were you confronted with there. when. you talk with and film people on death row who know that they're going to be executed in 8 days and that there's no escaping that. then of course there are certain boundaries their. respect respect dignity. due to respect the condemned person's human dignity. james

barnes is one of them. in order to film a death row inmate you have to be invited by him in writing. i was behind the camera you only ever hear my voice. but behind the camera i wore a formal suit in time which i almost never do it was a sign i respect you. they were always very open with you. and for me right in the very 1st moment. and that's a question of how you work as a director. you can only do that if you know the heart of men. if you can look deep into their souls then it works and looking at your films the boundaries between documentary and feature film are really fluid. and you still differentiate between them oh sure there's a big difference isn't much i also recognize. but i don't worry about it for me

they're all films as film me. you once said facts do not constitute truth per se. in this age of the internet and fake news what's the truth beyond the facts that you seek. the facts can be misleading truth is created or certain layers deeper layers are created through stylization through invention through imagination. the supposedly realistic picture often seen in documentaries is a misconception. which is why i say i invent things too because they serve the truth better than the found. in fact. back in south america again in the impenetrable tropical rain forest of guyana

against the spectacular backdrop of chi to a falls a mythical location for the indigenous population. this is where hats off made the white diamond a documentary about dreams and the limitations of technology. the dream of flying a floating above the earth here to parrot song dared to experiment. and that case we had the music 1st. so in the rain forest the camera man asked me how are you going to do it with the rhythm in the shoot at center and my gave him headphones and said listen. this is how we'll do it would be understood immediately . else reisa goes music evokes the beauty of nature and its vulnerability. to the scene i'm to

type nearly all there were one and a half 1000000 swifts which came out of the sky in a huge swarm and flew in circular movements into their nests behind a huge waterfall. goodness and it was overwhelming. and the music is equally overwhelming. like. this one sorry these who 1st raised who are the singers were sardinians who almost all have prehistoric voices. and they started singing with far too much energy and the meter was far too clear and i stood up and made flying movements for them and they understood. and suddenly the movement became that of an eagle gliding from

sri up. in hats ogg's films music itself is often a performer such as in the show of a case where else dreiser goes music brings the prehistoric paintings to life. in 2019 the vendor had sought foundation awarded a prize to rice ago he was praised for creating spaces with his music that were larger than what could be seen on the screen. that is so homesick you do not miss your new news an extraordinary visionary. 2 in the lock event of he's able to transform an entire world with music and to transform a world of images and suddenly the combination of music and images gives rise to

something new and different that the audience can perceive and experience in a different way of. van i have saw this relationship with music is a story of its own. he has also staged many operas going back to wagner again and again his 1st time was knowing playing at the by avoid festival in 1987. to leave a film chorley many of your colleagues vendors last frontier were also supposed to direct him by roy but they shied away from doing it what's so difficult about staging wagner is that he can help operates according to different rules. from directors can't expect to use the same criteria and the same working methods as

they do in the cinema that was always clear so i told the singers and the others that we had to forget that i work in the film. i said that we had a task and that there would only be an opera when the whole world transformed into music and the gun seat belt in music from the. plane. so that some fear back to film you've been in some very extreme places in the mountains in the amazon underwater in the desert on the ice caps is there anything else that you're still seeking or that you'd like to explore more. than i'd like to go to the space station or to the moon. or i'd like to make a short visit to mars if that ever becomes possible in this and. is

bavaria still your home even though you haven't lived here for 20 years and toss in many of my cultural roots are here by my 1st language was a very and i miss it actually and when i'm traveling around the world i miss the fact that i never hear very in dialect being spoken that it. was. if i understand it this incident of it it's a taco missed consensus and. yes go to it's a cinch to its own country as it. were some day makes the tumbling of the earth apocalyptic imagery more than 50 years after launching his career katz august still

seeks sole scapes on the edges of the planet. he said declines to burst forth because this. is middle of you have been winning prizes for your lifetime achievement for 10 years now this time it's from the european film academy. how does that feel different. so next time i mean if you distances go taste well to begin with i think it's grotesque it's really well and of course it's a little strange because i'm still in the middle of my work. and now my output is higher than it was 30 or 40 years ago. last year i made 3 films but i. know others need 6 to 8 years to do that yog the day before yesterday i was still shooting in norway on a new film and in less than a week i'll be in mexico to continue it. isn't so much to get this prize 10 years

after i stopped making films and have to be rolled onto the stage in a wheelchair. he hoarded throughout it that i helped thank you it's been a pleasure.

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