2022 film directed by Werner Herzog

Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors). Among them are Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Wim Wenders.

This film essay by Steff Gruber is a report on the exceedingly difficult work of making Werner Herzog's film COBRA VERDE in Ghana. The very personal film however is more than just a blow by blow account of the film's creation. It also focuses on the complicated relationship between the two stars Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the walk-on players (Herzog had a thousand young Ghanaian women trained as Amazon warriors) and the clash of black and white. As Klaus Kinski died soon after the completion of filming work, LOCATION AFRICA was the last documentary film in which he appeared.

After the death of his mother, farmer Windleter feels very lonely on his small mountain farm in Switzerland. Chances to find a wife in the small village are nil - a life with him would mean hard work seven days a week. So he finally "orders" a young woman from Thailand, who grew up on a farm herself, and marries her right away, although she doesn't speak a word of German. Slowly they start to grow together - but his village neighbors won't accept her and treat her like a dirty whore.

《垃圾桶小孩的故事》由德国新电影主将之一爱德嘉·莱兹（《故乡》1984）及其学生乌拉·施特克尔（《猫有九条命》1968，被誉为西德第一部女性主义电影）于1969-1971年间拍摄制作的实验电影。影片采用分集短片形式，共25集，每集长短不一。讲述一个从医院垃圾桶的子宫污汙中诞生的红衣小孩，进入社会后的故事。影片由莱兹本人的制片公司制作，完成后起初并未按正常渠道发行，而是制作了一份25集的“菜单”，于慕尼黑的一家酒吧“点单”放映（除周一外每日放映，入场3.5马克）。在第17集中，赫尔佐格饰演了一个角色，是他作为演员的荧幕首秀。
菜单如下：
Dumpster Kid Menu
1) Old Men
If Dumpster Kid wants to, she can make some men end up standing around in their underwear. 1’06’’
2) Dumpster Kid's Childhood
You should definitely see this story! An afterbirth leads an independent life – but then child welfare comes along. 6’13’’
3) Dumpster Syndrome
Something about the ability of our society to understand everything, forgive everything and pay for everything. 10’15’’
4) Cleanliness is a House’s Decoration
Dumpster Kid in the shower, in the rain and under the eaves. 4’30’’
5) Cats Have Fleas
Dumpster Kid pretends to sleep, because she wants to find out what might happen. But her stepmother interferes. 8’34’’
6) Dumpster Kid Becomes Smooth and Round
A spiritual man who knows what is good for people attempts to raise Dumpster Kid. 4’52’’
7) A Tiny Bit of Happiness
Dumpster Kid fools around with the fruits of the field. 2’03’’
8) Dumpster Kid Gets to Know a Lord and is Hanged
That’s true, but the revenge is particularly sweet. 17’10’’
9) Dumpster Kid Tells a Fairy Tale to a Queen
A story to listen to and watch. 6’08’’
10) Dumpster Kid Learns a Dubious Game
Dumpster Kid learns first-hand how a pleasurable connection develops between stroking and hitting. 3’31’’
11) Dumpster Kid Learns How to Say No
Dumpster Kid is getting married, but at the crucial moment she suddenly gets nervous. All hell breaks loose. 16’40’’
12) A Marmot Learns How to Dance
Dumpster Kid is supposed to learn what to do at the country fair. She sings songs, swears at people and steals the cash box. 18’51’’
13) All Power to the Vampire
It is hard to believe how many vampires there might be. Dumpster Kid calls upon them all for a major demonstration. 2’19’’
14) Freedom Through Al Capone
Dumpster Kid is constantly talking about revolution, but Al Capone, the pig, is talking about something quite different. 18’36’’
15) A Shoplifter
After a nice shopping spree, Dumpster Kid ends up sitting on the lap of the shop assistant and goes along with it only a little bit. 3’38’’
16) Particularly Kind Parents
Dumpster Kid has to learn that sexual intercourse can also be quite nasty when it takes place in the toilet. 9’
17) The Value of Money is Low on Earth
Dumpster Kid goes on the game and is murdered. 15’13’’
18) To the audience: Please leave any stories and moneymaking tips at the box-office.
19) Burn the Witch
Is Dumpster Kid destined to be burnt at the stake? Will she be saved from above? 4’15’’
20) To the audience: Please leave any stories and moneymaking tips at the box-office.
21) Dumpster Kid Likes to Have a Good Friend for Dinner
The way to a person's heart is through his stomach. But sometimes you ruin him that way. 9’35’’
22) Dumpster Kid Drowns Dumpster Kids
There is lovely music to this one, and it is all very poetic. 4’13’’
23) To the audience: Please inquire about stories and moneymaking tips at the box-office.
24) Dumpster Kid Rides for the King
The greatest film of all time. Intrigue, old walls, squeaking floors, the queen sleeps with the wrong man, Dumpster Kid marries d‘Artagnan and rides off on a white horse, more intrigue, and this time Dumpster Kid plays along. By the end of it, all the blame is put on her. 25’30’’
25) The Bank Account in the Woods
Dumpster Kid believes in our credit system. She therefore has to jump out of the fourth floor of a house and sing a sad song. 11’46’’
26) to 64) Please leave any stories and money-making tips at the box-office.
(Edgar Reitz Stiftung)

For over half a century, the filmmaker Edgar Reitz, one of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and a pioneer of epic film narration, has explored, as a practitioner and theoretician, the rules and limits of cinema, which he always seeks to break and extend in new ways. One example of his tireless search and research are the Geschichten vom Kübelkind, which he co-directed with Ula Stöckl in 1969/70, 22 absurdly funny, subversive and anarchistic short films of different lengths, which consciously oppose all conventions, with incredible success. The films remain unrivalled in their Dadaistic inventiveness.
The documentary Der Film verlässt das Kino: Vom Kübelkind-Experiment und anderen Utopien centres on how the Geschichten vom Kübelkind, now rediscovered and restored, actually came about. Edgar Reitz, Ula Stöckl, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge and other filmmakers and contemporaries look back on the conditions that made this and other such visionary projects possible 50 years ago. They are all concerned with the question: What will the future of moving pictures look like?

The Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap. The story is set in the world of professional poker and follows six players who reach the final table of the world’s second most famous high stakes tournament, the Grand Championship of Poker.

A documentation about Werner Herzog's motif to do movies.

Signs of Vigorous Life: New German Cinema features interview footage with Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Volker Schlondorff, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The documentary takes you through the origins of German film during its post war failures to the birth of the New German Cinema and its founding members.

This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in preparation for the annual opera festival in Bayreuth.

A portrait of Rudi Gutendorf and his friendship with Werner Herzog. A passionate football-coach who holds the world-record for having managed the most teams in the world (55).

A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.

Documentary about space colonization: a voyage across our planet, into the stars and beyond.

In this extensive review of the work of Werner Herzog, I examine the philosophy beneath his unique approach to filmmaking, and explore the significance of the many stories he brought home from faraway lands.
Sources:
Paul Cronin – Herzog on Herzog
Roger Ebert – A Letter to Werner Herzog
With the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union

Werner Herzog talking about his appreciation for Les Blank.

During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He's a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman's mission is to find and bring to the U.S. the best hand picked and hand processed tea. This search takes him directly to farms and engages him with Chinese scientists, business people, and government officials: Hoffman wants tea grown organically without a factory, high-yield mentality. By 2004, Hoffman has seen success: there are farmer's collectives selling tea, ways to export "boutique tea" from China, and a growing Chinese appreciation for organic farming's best friend, the earthworm.

Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...

Werner Herzog discusses the making of "Nosferatu" on set.