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this stick. together how solid is a 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. 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 van i have songs 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. 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 the cinema myself. if

i was. missing. one. 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. s. showing the point of view of outsiders and people on society its fringes became hets og's trademark. in $197900.00 least nosferatu his amash to f.w. more now silent film classic much more than a remake it was his 1st big international production the night it suited could be duty. it's good if you play it personally. please

let me do it. because it's hardly worth mentioning just a little cut. even yes 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 who thought this could start a sense for even because if you know the cult status is a term you should only touch with pincers so 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 through the variant films from the

baroque can the world weary and that's why i sometimes say that apart from me new vic the 2nd would have been the only person able to make its car all go. it's going right into my home 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 he felt that something was coming. to god. and someone who is prepared to defy gravity to realize his life's dream pushing boundaries is a constant theme and hair talks work. his intent if you've been an extreme environments extreme situations what drives you to

this day to seek out these extremes. he says makes the 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 icky. this is what involved. katsav 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. with the will of its out. there. and a passion for on a hinge characters. and i. guess. whether . you've called bad lieutenant of a very in film there's so much for

a while 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 film schools why. we decided. 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 they're learning film theory or other such nonsense so. they can learn everything they need to know in

a week so everything else is technical. can be left to the technicians. you can learn about filmmaking from veron or hertz online for example. instrumentals to 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 tell people they really learn. first how to pick a safety lock using a surgical instrument. and 2nd how to fake a filming permit to not kick. it. i've switched 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 it. again or the wrath of god was also shot in the south american jungle it's the tale of a 16th century spanish conquistador searching for. this feverish drama tackles imperialism greed and met the main shot in documentary style it follows a good honest historical suicide mission thanks. in the end klaus kinski goes mad in a scene that wrote film history. ott

. 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're going to look at what we're going to fare as though we're going to talk about it more than it actually got and yeah it was. me it was sort of mom how do you do yours didn't talk about such a document but then because of that you know so. i don't know oh and ok so i watched i thought i didn't want to join the sports committee and unprecedented scale model for me so i didn't get into it. and the 2nd night and got this feeling ok and when the 2 green lost in your last interview to start they're still actors as extreme as class kinski was. he intended instance extreme i don't

consider him extreme one can see you was kinski your. 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. nicolas cage nicole nicole kidman. tom cruise it is then why no one. not any one of them. ever came close to porno as is depth of the charisma. or his ability to convey isolation and ferocity. to write this blog that was likely due to his real life fake musicianship for 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. in the skittish scene i mean my. view in this didn't start with that he did little subtly or pick. a little. bit of the side i didn't think. this stuff could click to fleece. the city not. to fully get it. there are others who have similar biographies but who don't have the depth and presence onscreen that point 0 s. did. pales in comparison. as does nicholas cage nicolas cage and tom cruise to. vienna 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. spend my 1st winter wearing a coat holding one. taste for the frostbite could turn to gain green. be housing the how did you manage to be that evil. or was it was ever this 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. and he said. to his how many other stick not. van that have sought 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 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 these animals out there die for me that. i'm now going 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 . escaped and. before towards 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 piece or did say and the distributors and producers

absolutely wanted this recording to be in the film and so i said ok i 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 you come to see an infant can turn into. it. too must never listen to this i never heard her ever go into. this thinking you should not keep it you should destroy right yeah. ethical boundary. because the dignity and the privacy surrounding an individual's death must not be violated. period.

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've 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. 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 when he was a sign i respect you with. 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 is 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 as film me and them as obama. 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 when 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 parrot song dared to experiment. 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 right there 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. and it was overwhelming. and the music is equally overwhelming. this one sorry too fast praise 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 august films music itself is often a performer such as in the show of a case where rice a goes music brings the prehistoric paintings to life. in 2019 the vendor had sought foundation awarded a prize or i said 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 your new and good news an extraordinary visionary. 2 in the log 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 was knowing playing at the by a white festival in 1987. video of him clearly many of your colleagues of inventors 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 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 incidentally music from uncle. so it's unfair 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 mogs in this and from. this is bavaria still your home even though you haven't lived here for 20 years or you leave and toss in many could mark a 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 bavarian dialect being spoken. ish understand it isn't that of it it's a taco mist coach at this end. 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 have sought still seeks soul schemes on the edges of the planet. he says it turns to burst forth to. this country doing. its 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. so next time i mean if you distances go taste well to begin with i think it's crew task is really more 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've stopped making films and have to be rolled onto the stage in a wheelchair. you ordered to audit that i helped thank you it's part of the pleasure they go.

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