Films in cycle
Signs of Life
(Lebenszeichen, West Germany, 1968)
Directed by: Werner Herzog
PHOTOGRAPHY: Thomas Mauch
Synopsis:
Director Werner Herzog's first film. During World War II, a wounded German soldier Stroszek is sent to an isolated unit on a small Greek island to sit through the war. He is accompanied by his wife, Nora, and two other soldiers. Suddenly, he loses his mind and starts attacking both friends and enemies
b/w, 91'
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 03.12.2002 AT 19:00
Fata Morgana
(1970)
Directed by: Werner Herzog
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Synopsis:
Film shot in Sahara, an allegorical vision of man's life on Earth. An exceptionally difficult achievement direction-wise, a never-ending variation of 'empty' spaces. Background music was provided by the famous musician Leonard Cohen. Many critics consider this work to be Herzog's best.
color, 79 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 03.12.2002 AT 21:00
Even Dwarfs Started Small
(Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen, West Germany, 1970)
Directed by: Werner Herzog
PHOTOGRAPHY: Thomas Mauch
Synopsis:
A bizzare film that takes place in a desperate psychiatric hospital inhabited by dwarfs. They have had enough of normal people's tyranny so they organize a rebellion and take over the hospital. Grotesque characters acquire royal grandeur…
b/w, 96 '
PROJECTION:
Saturday 07.12.2002 AT 15:00
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
(Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes, West Germany, Mexico, Peru, 1972)
Directed by: Werner Herzog
PHOTOGRAPHY: Thomas Mauch
Synopsis:
In 1561 Pizzaro sends an expedition to the Amazonian wild to search for the legendary El Dorado. The leader of the expedition is the ruthless Spanish conquistador Lope de Aguirre. Hunger, fever, a merciless river, and the attacks of Amazon Indians gradually destroy the expedition. Possessed, Aguirre attempts to reach the seaside, appropriate New Spain, and found a new invincible dynasty with his daughter….
color, 95'
PROJECTION:
Saturday 07.12.2002 AT 17:00
Heart of Glass
(Herz aus Glas, West Germany, 1976)
Directed by: Werner Herzog
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Synopsis:
Film about a person with apocalyptic visions and premonitions of total destruction and madness. A small Bavarian town is thrown into cursed despair when the owner of the local glass factory dies carrying the secret of its famous Ruby Glass to his grave…It is interesting that all the actors were acting while hypnotized! According to Herzog, the goal was to recreate the atmosphere of hallucination, prophecy and predictions. So, all the actors were hypnotized before the shooting.
color, 94'
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 10.12.2002 AT 19:00
Stroszek
(West Germany, 1977)
Directed by: Werner Herzog
PHOTOGRAPHY: Thomas Mauch
Synopsis:
Having gotten out of prison, Bruno Stroszek befriends a prostitute, Eva, and an eccentric old man, Scheiz. The three of them leave Berlin and set off on their way to America in search of a better life and the fulfilment of the American dream. They settle near a deserted truckers’ inn in Wisconsin. Unfortunately, their American dream does not last long…
color, 115'
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 10.12.2002 AT 21:00
Woyzeck
(West Germany, 1979)
Directed by: Werner Herzog
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Synopsis:
The setting is a small military town in the mid 19th century. Forty-year-old Franz Woyzeck is a regular soldier whom his commander humiliates and exploits on daily basis. Beside verbal abuse, he also suffers physical torment because he serves as a guinea pig in experiments of the local doctor. In addition to the madness that surrounds him, his wife falls for a handsome soldier and they have an affaire. When Woyzeck finds out the truth, he kills Marie in a fit of jealous rage… The film is the ada...
color, 82'
PROJECTION:
Saturday 14.12.2002 AT 15:00
Cobra Verde
(West Germany, Gana, 1987)
Directed by: Werner Herzog
PHOTOGRAPHY: Viktor Ružička
Synopsis:
The action takes place at the turn of the 19th century. Violent Francisco Manoel da Silva, also known as Cobra Verde, works on a sugar cane farm in Brazil as a slave foreman. The owner of the farm decides to get rid of him when he finds out that he has gotten his three daughters pregnant. Cobra Verde is sent to Africa to bring a new shipment of black slaves. However, nobody told him that the place is ruled by a crazy king, and that no white man has come back alive from there for the...
color, 111'
PROJECTION:
Saturday 14.12.2002 AT 17:00
My Dearest Friend
(Mein liebster Feind, 1999)
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Synopsis:
A documentary retrospective of Klaus Kinski's and Herzog’s turbulent relationship. Klaus Kinski was frequently Herzog's lead actor; he featured in five of his films: Aguirre, The Wraths of Godi (1972), Nosferatu (1978), Woyzeck (1978), Fitzcarraldo (1981), and Cobra Verde (1987). And film was screened in the official program of the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
color, 95 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 17.12.2002 AT 19:00
The Land of Silence and Darkness
(Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit, 1971)
Directed by: Werner Herzog
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
Synopsis:
The heroine of this documentary is Fini Straubinger, a deaf and blind woman. Although handicapped, she dedicates her life to helping people with same difficulties. The film describes the battle of a deaf and blind person to accept and understand the world from which she is completely isolated.