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A self-portrait documentary on Werner Herzog. He discusses his childhood, hiking and several of his films.

551MB | 28 min 35 s | 684×462 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/B4E268A0B104B49/Werner_Herzog%2C_Portrait_Werner_Herzog_%281986%29.mkv

Language(s):German, English
Subtitles:English

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Werner Herzog’s third feature is a haunting, sardonic exploration of Africa as it was “in the beginning,” and as it becomes glutted with the wastes of technological civilization. Amos Vogel writes of the film: “Marvelous, sensual, 360-degree travelling shots of animal cadavers, barbed wire, industrial wastes, decaying trucks, sudden oil wells, ominous surrealist tableaux — all embedded in tragically alienated landscapes of sand and disassociated natives — create an obsessional, hypnotic statement whose anti-technological, anti-totalitarian, cruelly anti-sentimental humanism is subtle, overpowering, and inexplicable to shallow Left and know-nothing Right.”

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The critic David Thomson describes Fata Morgana as “extraordinary”: “[The] desert is a model for mankind. The film is in three sections: the first showing an unpeopled, beautiful wasteland; the second introducing signs of human wreckage; and the third showing wretched vestiges of life. Totally imaginative, it is a legend of life at extremes that exposes the fatuity of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Whereas Stanley Kubrick glibly assumes some all-powerful, riddle-making consciousness behind the universe, Herzog’s creator is as fallible, quirky and uncertain as man himself.”

1.57GB | 1 h 16 min | 766×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F09F958E05841F1/Werner_Herzog,_Fata_Morgana_(1971)_-_BluRay_576p.mkv

Language(s):German, English (commentary)
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis

Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide wrote:
Historian, author, and movie critic Lotte H. Eisner is the subject of this documentary. She recalls her early childhood in Germany and her association with such legendary directors as F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. Leaving Germany for Paris in 1933, her anticipation of WW II saw her relocating to the South of France. Eisner gives her considerable and insightful opinions on classic German Expressionist Films, as several of her admirers drop by during the interview conducted by director Sohrab Shadid-Saless.

Sohrad Shahid Saless

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from culturebase.net:
Sohrab Shahid Saless was born in Tehran in 1944 and studied film in Vienna and Paris. After returning to Iran, he first worked for the Ministry of Arts and Culture, where he made 22 films. In 1976, he left Iran for Germany, where he worked as a filmmaker until 1991, then moving to Chicago where he died in 1998. In his first feature, the milestone film “A Simple Event” (1973), he describes the everyday life of a ten-year-old boy living in a small town with an ill mother and a father struggling to make a living smuggling fish. In contrast, “Still Life” (1974) explores the monotony in the life of an old railway switchman – a film that won many prizes, including one at the 1974 Berlinale. Other films by Saless include “Far from Home” (1975), “Diary of a Lover” (1976), “Coming of Age” (1976), and “Utopia” (1983).

https://nitro.download/view/CD4A5C3E37B13AD/Sohrab_Shahid-Saless_-_Die_langen_Ferien_der_Lotte_H._Eisner__1979_.avi
https://nitro.download/view/1FFAFC63F65CB77/Lotte_H._Eisner_1979.ENG._almost_2x40-12.srt

Language:German, some English language parts
Subtitles:English

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