Iconic characters to images in feature films and documentaries. Always searching for a deeper truth his perspective is investigative and radically subjective van i had 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 consarn sycophants if you flee and i was around 14 or 15 years old when various things happened at the same time which made my fate apparent to me. And she saw as he talked among them was that i would make films. But i was also a kind of poet. To you 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. Bashing the machine. Very 1st feature film was a declaration of war on the triviality of postwar 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 help trademark. In 197900. 00 least nosferatu his all mushed f. W. Moore now silent film classic much more than a remake it was his 1st Big International production the night it suited could be duty. But it could give you personally. Please let me do it. Oh forget it its hardly worth mentioning just a little. Even yes i feel youve lived in los angeles in the heart of the dream factory for many years. Youve said you dont really feel part of the german film scene but in the us you enjoy a cult status as a bavarian in Hollywood Hollywood is your thoughtless. Since fascinated him because if you know cult status is a term you should only touch with pincers giving 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 im part of the city with the dream factory but no im not part of it and i dont really belong to a german film either. I actually belong to something more regional to the very end films from the baroque and the world weary so thats why i sometimes say that apart from me. The 2nd would have been the only person able to make a pitch car although its going to do more who couldnt. 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 before that can take what comes and. Someone who is prepared to defy gravity to realize his lifes dream pushing boundaries is a constant theme and hertz all this work. Is indeed if youve been an extreme environments extreme situations what drives you to this day to seek out these extremes. Makes you dont 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 its just a force to be. More involved. Katsav returned to the jungle again for the vietnam war drama rescued on. That was a big american production but headstrong is also a nonconformist in hollywood for. A period with the will of its. Kind of there. And a passion for unhinged characters. And their pockets done about them not just. Whether. Youve called bad lieutenant of a very in film theyre sold us from the wild and baroque. Wilder than the wildest drinkers at october fest it really goes to extremes and. To the bridge it. Surely has what for all the souls still dancing. You never went to film school thank goodness see how you dont think much of film schools why. The dissidents principally i think theyre 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 theyre learning film theory or other such nonsense. They can learn everything they need to know in a week so you can see Everything Else is technical. Could be left to the technicians. Here you can learn about filmmaking from veron or hertz online. Instrumentals to cowardice. But theres more. Film school i founded the road film school. It was designed to be the exact opposite of everything youd normally learn in film schools. There are only 2 things i tell people theyre really learn. First time out or pick a safety lock using a surgical instrument. And 2nd how to fake a filming permit and not get caught. In lets. Switch 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 its the tale of a 16th century spanish comes he said or searching for el dorado this feverish drama tackles imperialism greed and megalomania shot in documentary style to follow a good honest historical Suicide Mission thanks. In the end klaus kinski goes mad in a scene that wrote film history. Not. Well she was. A good guy and later fitzcarraldo r. T. Made headlines during shooting largely due to the unpredictable lead actor klaus kinski he made 5 films with hats on the works through their productive love hate relationship in a documentary. Theyre going to vote republican because no one. Got it more than if. It was a rich person thats your neighbors son and mom how do you want to getting tackled by such a document and because of that you know. Enough of this mother know. Im not oh and ok so i was i thought if you dont want to join the Sports Committee and youre on the im interested in can skim off for me since i can so im going to think with these and he sucked in writing and got this feeling. Some green lost didnt get lost in the star theyre still actors as extreme as class kinski was. Infin didnt. Consider him extreme. He was kinski and in a certain sense he was a singular figure but he wasnt the best actor i worked with. The deepest and best one was bruno s. Who played the title roles in costume house. Ive worked at the worlds 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 the charisma. Or his ability to convey isolation and parady to write this blog that was likely due to his real life fake musicianship 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 didnt belong. Then just see i mean not being in this would be to little subtly or big fish it looks a little. Bit didnt i didnt think. Just listening to stuff at least. Listen to see not. Only could. There are others who have similar biographies but who dont have the depth and presence on screen that porno 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 songs did in front of the camera playing an evil gang leader. Spend my 1st winter. Coat out in one. Case. With the frostbite could turn to gain green. Bay how was it how did you manage to be that evil. Or was it was effortless totally effortless work. So i didnt have to do a screen test and i knew that i could do it and he would come and thus i earn good money for being terrifying on screen if you want to see him she. Didnt. Thats a size 2 but its how many other stick not. Van i have thought has his own unique perspective on the world and people his documentaries also focus on eccentric and obsessive type. Like fanatical Animal Rights activist Timothy Treadwell. Im here with one of my favorite pairs express the 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 examples out there. Right now that in the end he was himself killed by a bear. My mind. How much youre a dog after treadwells death in 2003 hertzog followed his trail right to the bitter and. Skipped and. Taught from timothy traitor and theres an audio recording of the death of Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend. Libby both of them are eaten by a bear eaten alive piece by piece for why you call the city and the distributors and producers absolutely want to destroy cording 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 did he come to see me in film can turn it off. Too must never listen to this i know her and have her go into. Thank you you should not keep it you should destroy it. Ethical boundary individually because the dignity and the privacy surrounding an individuals death must not be violated period period poked. Didnt shy away from interviewing condemned prisoners awaiting execution for his 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. Ive watched several episodes of your series on death row what boundaries were you confronted with there. When see. You talk with and film people on death row with people who know that theyre going to be executed in 8 days and that theres no escaping that then of course there are certain boundaries there. Respect respect dignity. Due to respect to condemned persons human dignity. James barnes is wide enough to. 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 and tie which i almost never do it was a sign i respect you with because. They were always very open with you. Meant for me right in the very 1st moment. And thats a question of how you work as a director. You can only do that if you know the heart of mental heart and if you can look deep into their souls then it works. And looking at your films the boundaries between documentary and feature film are really fluid. Do you still differentiate between them. Oh sure theres a big difference which i also recognise. Me but i dont worry about it for me theyre all films. For you once said facts do not constitute truth per se. In this age of the internet and fake news whats the truth beyond the facts that you seek. If you and 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 fact its a sting fuck. Back in south america again in the end penetrable 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 on made the White Diamond a documentary about dreams and the limitations of technology. The dream of flying a floating above the earth here to help zogby dared to experiment. 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 and my gave him headphones and said listen. This is how well do it would be understood immediately. Else reisa goes music evokes the beauty of nature and its vulnerability. To the scene im to tide me 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. Goodness and it was overwhelming. And the music is equally overwhelming its like the holy. The sound sorry 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. In hats oggs films music itself is often a performer such as in the show vacate where dreiser goes music brings the prehistoric paintings to life. In 2019 the vendor had sought Foundation Awarded a price 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 im sick you do not miss the only reason extraordinary visionary. 2 dazed in the log even thought he was able to transform an entire world with music and to transform a world of images and suddenly that 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 towards 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. To give a film corley many of your colleagues vendors last frontier were also supposed to direct and buy rights but they shied away from doing it whats so difficult about staging wagner is that he can help operates according to different rules. From directors cant 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 were controlling i said that we had a tacit and that there would only be an opera when the whole world transformed into music and you can see belt in music from it. So its unfair back to film youve 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 youre still seeking or that youd like to explore more. Id like to go to the space station or to the moon. Or id like to make a short visit to mars if that ever becomes possible mobs in this and. This is but the area still your home even though you havent lived here for 20 years youre leaving soon many of my Cultural Roots are here my 1st language was very and i miss it actually and when im travelling around the world i miss the fact that i never hear but they are in dialect being spoken. Ish i understand it isnt that of it. Its a taco mist consensus and. Yes go to its a is it starts in come to it or. A song to make the tumbling of the earth apocalyptic imagery more than 50 years after launching his career cats are still seeing soul scapes on the edges of the planets. Their plans to burst forth. This. Is middle of you have been winning prizes for your Lifetime Achievement for 10 years now this time its from the european film academy. How does that feel. So next time i mean if you distance us protest well to begin with i think its a protest really and of course its a little strange because im 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 ill be in mexico to continue it if you like thats the thing isnt so much to get this prize 10 years after i stopped making films and have to be rolled onto the stage in a wheelchair. He ordered. That to help thank you instead of pleasure. Every year at christmas time european celebrates with meals sublime looking at each country will tie tradition in this seasons euro max mission. In our series of Christmas Carols this time with turkey and christmas pudding. The taste of a new delicious britain. The rollers next. On the 77 percent we talk about the. 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