speech but of course the interest on just summer $9989.00. shortly after the fall of the chancellor addresses the people of east germany. the mideast turns the crown clamors for the german unity journalist peter on the board was at the scene. 30 years later he looks back on the time most interesting. stories to summer 90 g.w. . a few new science bent things to you because they serve the truth better than the facts as to fork.

it says. that i have is a film legend the german director has made over 70 felt it's 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. transit 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 verda 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 barriers 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. 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 the cinema myself. if i left.

it in the. 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 its fringes became hets og's trademark. in 1979 released nosferatu his all mushed f. w. moore now silent film classic much more than a remake it was his 1st big international production and i pursued could be duty. it's good if 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 as a bavarian in hollywood hollywood career thoughtless. since fascinated in 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 you know dick the 2nd would have been the only person able to make this car all go. it's going to do more 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. 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

indian if you've been in extreme environments extreme situations what drives you to this day to seek out these extremes. he says makes to don't 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 dawn that was a big american production but headstrong is also a nonconformist in hollywood for. the very end with the will of the. senate. and a passion for unhinged characters. and yes. with the. you've called bad lieutenant of a very in film. it's

a wild and baroque. wilder than the wildest drinkers at oktoberfest it really goes to extremes want to go back to the big get. there. surely guess what fall is 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 can learn

everything they need to know in a week so you can see everything else is technical committee left to the technicians and take this disconnect. and see if you can learn about filmmaking from veron or hertz augie online for example to mark's use a storyboard i think it's an instrument of the cowards who can learn the same sorts of filmmaking. but there's more scripted 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. this i can do give us there are only 2 things i tell people they're really learned. 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 lots of recently

i've switched to doing more workshops. those 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 film. the framework is delirium in the jungle so. see what you can come up with and deliver the results in 9 days' time and some great films came out of it was. a good read 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 mad the mania shot in documentary style it follows a good day on its historical suicide mission. in the end klaus kinski a good day goes mad in a scene that wrote film history that.

caught. well swiftly. of you die and later fitzcarraldo r.t. made headlines during shooting largely due to the unpredictable lead actor klaus kinski he made 5 films with parents ought to work through their productive love hate relationship in a documentary. they don't much about global going to friends or anyone with an issue that's a dark area with. me starting small mad yorks didn't talk about so much about you but then because of that you know it's hard. to know. who thought i was not an okie so i thought it was time for a bit and i want to join the sports community and i'm the president can. be sucked into it if he's. got this really. mean the last didn't get lost in the dips are there still actors as extreme as class kinski was. he intended instance

extreme i don't consider him extreme. he was kinski obvious. 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 a crossbow house. i've worked with 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 depth than charisma. or his ability to convey isolation and paresi to write this blog that was likely due to his real life as a musician she practically 23 years after school 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. i didn't mind. being in the states but with the little subtly of victory fish he did lose sight of the fine but on the side of it i didn't think. just listening to stuff i could flip just released. the city not just the physically. there are others who have similar biographies but who don't have the depth and presence on screen that point 0 s. did. pales in comparison. as does nicholas cage nicolas cage and tom cruise to talk. then i had thought worked with tom cruise on the action thriller jack reacher but

this time had song stood in front of the camera playing an evil gang leader i. spent my 1st winter. coat out in what. should. be the frost bite could turn to green. bay how was it how did you manage to be that evil. or was it was effortless totally effortless work. so i didn't have to do a screen test in life and i knew that i could do it and he would come to us i earn good money for being terrifying on screen if you want to see him. that he said. 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 express the chocolate iris 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. are. now going in the end he was himself killed by a bear. my mind. during after treadwell's death in 2003 hertzog followed his trail right to the bitter and . skipped and. taught to move the tractor and so there's an audio recording of the death of timothy treadwell and his girlfriend. the both of them are eaten by a bear eaten alive piece by piece called it say and the distributors and producers

absolutely wanted this recording to be in the film 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 you come to see me in film can turn into. you. 2 must never listen to this i never heard her pimp ever go into. i think you know you should not keep it you should destroy it you know as anything she can see it since ethical boundary individually toward because the dignity and the privacy surrounding an individual's death must not be violated. period period poked.

yet heads are didn't shy away from interviewing condemned prisoners awaiting execution for as many series on death row. as a german coming from a different historical background into being a guest in the united states i respectfully disagree with a practice of capital punishment and help me move forward i've watched several episodes of your series on death row what boundaries were you confronted with there . when c. it's mentioned and told this 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 if there is no escaping that. then of course there are certain boundaries there. 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. 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 men. if you can look deep into their souls then it works it's 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 which i also recognize. but i don't worry about it for me they're all films then as. 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 and 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. a sting fuck.

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. on 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 shooting center on my getting headphones and said listen. this is how we'll do it and he understood immediately.

else right there goes music evokes the beauty of nature and its vulnerability. and the seemed 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. and it was overwhelming. and the music is equally overwhelming. the sound sorry these who 1st raised 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 so 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 2. in hats og's films music itself is often our performer such as in the show vacate where strikes against music brings the prehistoric paintings to life. in 2019 the vendor had sought foundation awarded the 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 do not miss the only n.p.r. news an extraordinary visionary. 2 dazed in the dark even tough he's able to

transform an entire world with music and 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 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. video of him clearly 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. back to use the same criteria and the same working methods as they do in the center 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 dance event in music from it. 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 found. this is bavaria still your home even though you haven't lived here for 20 years and soon many of my cultural roots are here my 1st language was bavarian i miss it actually and when i'm travelling around the world i miss the fact that i never hear bavarian dialect being spoken. ish understand it isn't in that of it it's a taco mist culture this end. yes go to it's a cinch to it's none to it it. will some day miss the tumbling of the earth

apocalyptic imagery more than 50 years after launching his career cats are still seeks sole scapes on the edges of the planet. the society turns to burst forth to kill this country. has made love 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. so next time i mean if you distance a school taste well to begin with i think it's grotesque really 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 i think i feel secure 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 ordered to our bit that i have thank you instead of pleasure and i go.

to. the ex to hear your is. the interior inspire even knew where the for. 4th generation school the oktava showings in new splendor. and much new. master updates and most find our last engine. boring

and striving fine. on drive. 30 minutes to double. their creed to today's world. in 1979 historical german version politics news news published the tod in the run up evil of the islamic revolution. pagans are making its initial flirtation with the rosary strikes and states of emergency management decisions or chaos mobs jungle servants disciplined shams the people from stealing told her body want carsten lives going to the start of an era that defines only managed to the 1700 the big

committed to its most students december 23rd double. cutting through the noise. where i come from people are known for being tough but fair play your can get loud and people tell it like it it is going to take all of the concrete jungle of the melts in congress city that never sleeps it's this energy that makes it feel like old but amid the hustle it's important to listen and pay attention because it's not just the loudest voices who needs to be heard we all have a story to tell the i.c. it is my job as a journalist to go beyond the obvious now i'm basing your a mum and my work takes me around the world might get a. since for me the state to tell the important stories behind the headlines what is the heart of the story why does it matter who live impacts. the focus if you

want. to cut through the noise to get to the truth. by davis or kelly and i work at a data. bank. play. this is d.w. news live from berlin on the eve of an international climate summit in madrid the u.n. secretary general sounds the alarm on the rising global temperatures we hear from an indonesian fisherman waging his own personal battle with the resulting rise in global sea level also coming out. germany's ruling coalition on a collision course with the social democrats alleged new leaders who want to change

their coalition agreement until a medical conservatives but the c.d.u. says no art will not.