is it to say. here beethoven lose your mind. was a story behind the music. for the ages british. beethoven's 9th. for the more starts of people lives on t.w. . a few men to sign ben things to you because they serve the truth better than the facts most in fact can.

sit. together have it's 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. 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. 6 months in from fs 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. 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.

in the 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 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 not start out to his own march 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 could give you personally. please

let me do it. oh forget it it's hardly worth mentioning just a little. 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 really thoughtlessly. since fascinated him because if you know cult status is a term you should only touch with pincers being 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 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 vic the 2nd would have been the only person able to make this 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. fitzcarraldo was a visionary with a mission. but the fact 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 the state to seek out these extremes. he says. i 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. so 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 for. the very end with the will of the. senate. and a passion for unhinged characters. and not just. with the. you've called bad lieutenant of a very in film. it's

a wild and baroque. wilder than the wildest drinkers are knocked over fast it really goes to extremes stick won't kill you back to the big good old days. surely guess what full soul still dancing. see how you never went to film school thank goodness you don't think much of them 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 their learning film theory or other such nonsense. they can learn

everything they need to know in a week so everything else is technical committee left to the technicians and taking this disconnect in to. see if you can learn about filmmaking from veron or had song on line for example and to not use a storyboard in concert instrument of the cowards you can learn the same sorts of her making. 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 they're really learning. c. 1st how to 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. 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. not

. just 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 want to go public and if i was there or. more than that it was a rich person for starting. didn't talk much about the band but then because of that you know. i was not an okie so i was trying to get on to join the sport committee and i'm interested in can. be sucked into this and the 2nd night and got this feeling. something even the last didn't get lost in the star they're still actors as extreme as class kinski was he

intended instance extreme i don't consider him extreme you can see he was kinski movie. 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 and charisma. or his ability to convey isolation and parasitic. to right this blog that was likely due to his real life a musician she practically 23 years after just going 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. in the skittish scene i mean. being in this state it still would be the little subtle yet big fish she did lose sight of the fine little aside i didn't think this. was the stuff that would click this least. in the city not. the fun you get. there are others who have similar biographies but who don't have the depth and presence onscreen employ no 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 songs did in front of the camera playing an evil gang leader i. spent my 1st winter. coat holding what. i saw before the frost bite turned green. the housing to how did you manage to be that evil. or was it was ever lists so totally effortless work. so i didn't have to do a screen test and i knew that i could do it and he would come i earn good money for being terrifying on screen. she. didn't. that he's. been so many other states 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 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. now those in the end he was himself killed by a bear. my. jury is going after treadwell's death in 2003 hertzog followed his trail right to the bitter and. escaped and. taught from timothy a traitor and so there's an audio recording of the death of timothy treadwell and his girlfriend. yet both of them are eaten by a bear eaten alive peace pipe he's a lawyer on call did 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 he come to see an infant can turn into. you. 2 must never listen to this i never heard her pimp ever go into. this thinking 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 haired zog 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 and being a guest in the united states i respectfully disagree with a practice of capital punishment. for i've watched several episodes of your series on death row what boundaries were you confronted with there. when see. 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 there's no escaping that then of course there are certain boundaries there. respect respect

dignity. due to respect the condemned person's human dignity. shame 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. 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 man. if you can look deep into their souls then it works in 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. who but i don't worry about it for me they're all films as film 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 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. 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. 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 would be understood immediately

. answer right there goes music evokes the beauty of nature and its vulnerability. to the scene. 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. the sun 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 . the. enhance 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 the prize to rice 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 of doing this you need he's an extraordinary visionary. 2

in the dark even tough 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. than i have talked 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 counted. 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 tacit and that there would only be an opera when the whole world transformed into music and guns event in music from. 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 mobs in this and. 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 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. ish undefended isn't it if it is a talk list culture this end. yes go to it's a cinch to its own country at it. some day miss the tumbling of the earth

apocalyptic imagery more than 50 years after launching his career katz august still seeks soul schemes on the edges of the planets. he says they plans to burst forth if you can. touch me i. 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 us go taste well to begin with i think it's crow 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 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. because 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 wanted to out there that know how to talk thank you it's been a pleasure.

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