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a field of science bent things to you because they serve the truth better than the facts just in fact. it's just. that i have is a film legend the german director has made over 70 felton'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. he mentions that movie the most. he's created
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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 consarn. felt so if you see and i was around 14 or 15 years old when various things happened at the same time which made my fate apparent to me. when she saw as he talked among them was that i would make films. but i was also
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a kind of poet. the hated 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. mr. bachchan. machine your. 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 s. . showing the point of view of outsiders and people on society its fringes became
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hets og's trademark in 197900 least nosferatu his amash to f.w. more now silent film classic much more than a remake it was his 1st big international production. and could be dirty. it could give you black person in. the let me do it. 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 u.s. you enjoy a cult status as a bavarian in hollywood holywood who. says fasten seat 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
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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 so 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 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. fitzcarraldo was a visionary with a mission. yes but before that judging what was done and.
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someone who is prepared to defy gravity to realize his life's dream pushing boundaries is a constant theme and hertz all this work. is indeed if you've been an extreme environments extreme situations what drives you to this day to seek out these extremes. he's. going to actually seek out 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 far sticky. involved. katsav return to the jungle again for the vietnam war drama rescued on. that was a big american production but headstrong is also a nonconformist in hollywood. with the will of the. senate there.
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and a passion for unhinged characters. and not just. whether . you've called bad lieutenant of a very in film there's so. wild and baroque. wilder than the wildest drinkers and october fest it really goes to extremes. to the brigade. surely to what full soul still dancing. see how you never went to film school thank goodness see how you don't think much of film schools why. the dissidents. i think they're completely misconceived. and basically poor film students are cooped
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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 they're learning film theory or other such nonsense so. they can learn everything they need to know in a week. everything else is technical. could be left to the technicians. here you can learn about filmmaking from veron or head song 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 school. there are only 2 things i
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tell people they're really learn. first how to pick a safety lock using a surgical instrument. and 2nd how to fake a filming permit and not kick. in let's. switch to doing more workshops. are just is 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 it. again or the wrath of god was also shot in the south american jungle if the tale of a 16th century spanish conquistador searching for. this feverish drama tackles
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imperialism greed and metal mania shot in documentary style it follows a good day on its historical suicide mission. thanks. to me and klaus kinski goes mad in a scene that wrote film history that. ott . yes it 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 hats on to work through their productive love hate relationship in a documentary. they don't want to talk about going to friends owing. more than if. it was a rich person that's where your neighbors don't model yours didn't talk about it it was a document but then because of that you know so we're going to you know for more because it's modern no. i'm not oh and ok so i try to run for
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a bit and i want to join the sport committee and i'm the president can scale model for me saku so i'm going to think if he's in the 2nd line and got this feeling coming from 3 in the last of me and dustin you're 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 bruno s. who played the title roles in costume 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 depth of the charisma.
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or his ability to convey isolation then paresi off to write this blog that was likely due to his real life fake musicianship practically 23 years from his childhood onwards he kept getting put away in correctional institutions and later in jail and in other places where he didn't belong they just see i mean my. view in this case it stuck with it a little sadly i picked up a. little spot on the side of it i didn't think. just listening to stuff and good flick just released. the. city not. the fully get it. there are others who have similar biographies but who don't have the depth and presence on screen that point 0 s.
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did. pales in comparison. as does nicholas cage nicolas cage and tom cruise to the top. then i had thought worked with tom cruise on the action thriller jack reacher but this time he had suggested in front of the camera playing an evil gang leader i. spent my 1st winter. coat outing. to pace myself for the frostbite turned green. the housing to 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 and i knew that i could do it with the come i earned good money for being terrifying on screen. she. didn't.
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at least. it's how many other states not. van i have talked 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 expressed a chocolate 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. 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 augur followed his trail right to the bitter
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and. skipped and. taught for 2 months he trained for and so there is an audio recording of the death of timothy treadwell and his girlfriend. yet both of them were eaten by a bear eaten alive piece by piece for a while you would 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 and turn it on. to must never listen to this i never heard her pimp ever go into.
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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 perfect. yet hair 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 forward i've watched several episodes of your series on death row what boundaries were you confronted with there. when c.
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it's mentioned and 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 there. respect respect dignity. due to respect to condemned persons human dignity. same spar and this 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 and 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.
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meant for me 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 in which i also recognize. me but i don't worry about it for me they're all films. for 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
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imagination. this 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. way. 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 help zogby dared to experiment.
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in 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 gave him headphones and said listen. this is how we'll do it and he understood immediately. else writes that as music evokes the beauty of nature and its vulnerability. to the scene i'm to type new york 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. like.
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this one sorry these who 1st raised who were 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 just 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. in hats ogg's films music itself is often a 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 a price or i said he was praised for creating spaces with his music that were
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larger than what could be seen on the screen. that is so i'm sick you do and he's here in the museum extraordinary visionary. 2 in the dark event of 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. then 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
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was knowing playing at the by a white 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 scale that he can get 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 developing. 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 seatbelt in music from uncle. place.
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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 again or i'd like to make a short visit to mars if that ever becomes possible mogs in this and found. this is bavaria still your home even though you haven't lived here for 20 years and soon many could market cultural roots are here 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 bavarian dialect being spoken.
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ish understand it is a bit of it but it's a taco list consensus and. yes go to it's a cinch to turn to it it. some day makes the tumbling of the earth apocalyptic imagery more than 50 years after launching his career katz august still seeks sole schemes on the edges of the planet's. ponds to burst forth because this. is my 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. to make them i mean if you distances go taste well to begin with i think it's grotesque really and
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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 will feel secure last year i made 3 films but i. know others need 6 to 8 years to do that yog 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 under the stage in a wheelchair. he ordered to all the vet to help thank you inspirit leisure.
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