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true that 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 the 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 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. and 6. among them was that i would make films. that i was also a kind of poet. the. and it was always clear to me that i would do this better than others. and 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 dwarves 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 hets og's trademark. in 1979 released nosferatu his almost f.w. more now silent film classic much more than a remake it was his 1st big international production and i pursued it could be duty . it's good gif you play it 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 at the very end in hollywood hollywood who really starts with. a sense for sense even because if 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 a german film either. i actually belong to something more regional to the variant films from the baroque in the world weary and that's why i sometimes say that apart from me. the 2nd would have been the only person able to make

a pitch car although. it's going couldn't. fitzcarraldo is the story of an eccentric adventurer ending to build an opera house in the amazon rain forest. fitzcarraldo was a visionary with a mission. but he 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 and if you've been in extreme environments extreme situations what drives you to the state to seek out these extremes. he's. going to actually see counter

extremes 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. this is more involved. cats all return to the jungle again for the vietnam war drama rescue don that was a big american production but headstrong is also a nonconformist in hollywood for. the theory and with the will of itself. and a passion for unhinged characters. and yes. with the. you've called bad lieutenant of a very in film. the wild and baroque. wilder than the wildest drinkers it october fast it really goes to extremes to go and kill back to the

big good old days. 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. they could learn everything they need to know in a week so everything else is technical. could be left to the technicians.

you can learn about filmmaking from veron or hertz online. instrument of the cowards. but there's more. i found at the road film school. it was designed to be the exact opposite of everything you'd normally learn in film schools. there are only 2 things i tell people they're really learn. first time out or pick a safety lock using a surgical instrument. and 2nd how to fake a filming permit and not get caught. in let's. switch to doing more workshops. are just as something in the amazon rain forest 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. a guitar the wrath of god was also shot in the south american jungle if the tale of a 16th century spanish conquistador searching for. its feverish drama tackles imperialism greed and metal mania shot in documentary style it follows a good honest historical suicide mission. in the end klaus kinski goes mad in a scene that broke film history. ott . well this was. a good day 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 much about people going to friends over stuff. with and. it was a rich person that's where you're going to mom how do you do your tintagel but it was a document but then because of that you know so we're going to you know from our mother no. action 00 and ok so i 1st i thought i didn't want to join the sports committee and i'm the president can skew a modern thing for me since i was starting to think that this sucked and i never got this feeling. that some green law student in the us didn't mean to start they're still actors as extreme as klaus 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 bruno s. who played the title roles in costume house. i've worked with the world's best with christian bale. nicholas cage nicole nicole kidman. tom cruise it is then no one. not any one of them. ever came close to point 0 as is the charisma. or his ability to convey isolation and ferocity to write this blog that was likely due to his real life as a musician she practically 23 years 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. there. i mean my. view in this

would be to blow subtly of a victim she did loose a little. bit of the side 5 minutes think. listening to stuff after a little feast. this big. city not. only. there are others who have similar biographies but who don't have the depth and presence on screen that bono as did. 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 had suggested in front of the camera playing an evil gang leader. spent my 1st winter wearing

a technics coat holding what it. should. be for the frostbite could turn to gain green. the how was it how did you manage to be that evil. or was it was effortless so totally effortless work. so i didn't have to do a screen test and i knew that i could do it with us i earned good money for being terrifying on screen if you want to see hugh. and he said so and so many other stick not. valid how talk has his own unique perspective on the world and people his documentaries also focus on eccentric obsessive types. like fanatical animal rights activist timothy treadwell. i'm here with one of my favorite pairs expressed the chocolate chocolate

he's been with me for the grizzly man spent his summers in alaska and lost all sense of distance between himself and the bears these animals out there die for these animals are. now those in the end he was himself killed by a bear. my mind. how many jurors after treadwell's death in 2003 hertz og followed his trail right to the bitter and . skipped and. taught from timothy traitor and so there's an audio recording of the death of timothy treadwell and his girlfriend. libby both of them were eaten by a bear eaten alive piece by bees a la you wouldn't say and the distributors and producers absolutely want to destroy cording to be in the film so and so i said ok i'll listen to it. and i listened to it and it was so incredibly horrifying that i said only over my dead body will this

make it into the film or he come to see me in film and turn it over. to must never listen to this i never heard her ever go into. i think you know you should not keep it you should destroy it you know there's anything she can say it's made sense ethical boundary individually toward because the dignity and the privacy surrounding an individual's death must not be violated period period perfect. yet hertz are didn't shy away from

interviewing condemned prisoners awaiting execution for as many series on death row . as a chairman coming from a different historical background and being a guest in the united states i respectfully disagree with the practice of capital punishment and help me move i've watched several episodes of your series on death row what boundaries were you confronted with there. when c. it's mentioned him told us when you talk with and film people on death row with people 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 friends respect respect dignity you to respect their condemned persons human dignity and. respect. james barnes is wide enough to. 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. behind the camera i wore a formal suit and tie which i almost never do it was a sign i respect you respect. they were always very open with you. meant 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 mental heart. 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. do 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. if you have the facts can be misleading the 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 folk. 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 are made the white diamond a documentary about dreams and the limitations of technology. the dream of flying a floating above the earth here to hertz og dared to experiment. 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 shooting center on 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 tired me 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. 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

shri. 6 2 enhance ogg's films music itself is often a performer such as in the show vacate where else dreiser goes music brings the prehistoric paintings to life. in 2019 the vendor had sought foundation awarded a prize to reisa he was praised for creating spaces with his music that were larger than what could be seen on the screen. that is so i'm sick you don't dismiss your new idea he's an extraordinary visionary . 2 in the loggy it until he's able to transform an entire world with music and then to transform a world of images and suddenly you the combination of music and images gives rise

to something new and different that the audience can perceive and experience in a different way. than i have towards 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 a white festival in 1987. many of your colleagues vendors last frontier were also supposed to direct and buy rights 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. spector used 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 film i said that we had a task and that there would only be an opera when the whole world transformed into music and guns event in music from one built. so that some for 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. 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 mobs in this and. this is

bavaria still your home even though you haven't lived here for 20 years but you're leaving soon many of my cultural roots are here my 1st language was very and i miss it actually and when i'm travelling around the world i miss the fact that i never here but they are in dialect being spoken. ish understand it isn't a bit of it it's a taco missed culture this end. disclosed it's a cinch to its own country as it. sunk to miss the tumbling of the earth apocalyptic imagery more than 50 years after launching his career cats are still

seeks soul schemes on the edges of the planet. he says declines to burst forth to. this country. this model 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 differently. so next time i mean if you distance us protest well to begin with i think it's crow task is really well 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 but i think. 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. you ordered to audit that to help thank you it's been a pleasure and i go.

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