Together have the film legend the german director has made over 70 films ranging from art house to big hollywood productions hes traveled to the ends of the earth and peered into the depths of the human soul. He mentions the movie the most. Hes 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. When i was around 14 or 15 years old when various things happened at the same time which made my fate apparent to me. And 6. Among them was that i would make films that i was also a kind of poet so the. And it was always clear to me that i would do this better than others. And 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 let. This in the. Very 1st feature film was a declaration of war on the triviality of postwar german cinema. And this anarchic surreal and disturbing drama about dwarves 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 ogs trademark. In 197900. 00 least nosferatu his almost 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. Its good if you play it personally. Please let me do it. Oh forget it its hardly worth mentioning just. Even you know as 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 at the very end in Hollywood Hollywood who really thoughtlessly. Says fascinated him because if you know the cult status is a term you should only touch with pincers 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 variant films from the baroque can the world weary and thats why i sometimes say that apart from me vic the 2nd would have been the only person able to make this car all go. 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. Its clear although it was a visionary with a mission. 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 hair talks work. Hes in to if youve been an extreme environments extreme situations what drives you to this day to seek out these extremes. He says makes 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 forest green. This is involved. Cats all return to the jungle again for the vietnam war drama rescue dawn that was a big american production but help talk is also a nonconformist in hollywood for. The very end with the will of itself. And a passion for unhinged characters. With the term called bad lieutenant of a very in film theres so once who gets a wild and baroque. Wilder than the wildest drinkers are fast it really goes to extremes to go and kill back to the big. Surely guess what full soul still dancing. You never went to film school thank goodness you dont think much of film schools why. 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 there 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 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 who works use the storyboards in concert instrument of the cowards you can learn the same switzer till making. But theres more skip the rope film school i founded the rogue film school. It was designed to be the exact opposite of everything youd normally learn in film school and. The sounds of you i think im kinda give us there are only 2 things i tell people theyre really learned. The 1st time out or pick a safety lock using a surgical instrument. And 2nd how to fake a filming permit and not get caught. In lots of recently ive 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 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 conquistador searching for el dorado this feverish drama tackles imperialism greed and megalomania shot in documentary style it follows 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. Caught. Us 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 all who work through their productive love hate relationship in a documentary. They dont want to talk about your new friends are or. More than it. Was a rich person was going to come all mad with your didnt talk about you but then because of that you know. Im not looking so i cant watch im probably going to join the Sport Committee and im the president can. Get into it with me and he said good night and got this feeling. Some green lasted me and i asked him youre the star theres 2 actors as extreme as class kinski was. Infin didnt stand 16 i dont 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 with the worlds best with christian bale. Nicolas cage Nicole Nicole kidman. Tom cruise it is then no one. Not any one of them. Ever came close to porno as is depp the charisma. Or his ability to convey isolation and ferocity to right this blog that was likely due to his real life fake musicianship for practically 23 years from his childhood onwards he kept getting put away in correctional institutions and later in jail and then other places where he didnt belong then just see i mean my. View in this would be the little subtle yet big fish it looks a little. Bit of the side im a think. Just listening to stuff i could just least. Stick to the city not. The fully. There are others who have similar biographies but who dont have the depth and presence onscreen employ no a stand. Pales in comparison. As does nicholas cage nicolas cage and tom cruise to talk. Then i had thought worked with tom cruise on the Action Thriller jack reacher but this time had song stood in front of the camera playing an evil gang leader i. Spent my 1st winter wearing a coat holding what it. Should. Be for the frostbite could turn to dream. The housing to 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 in life and i knew that i could do it with compass i earned good money for being terrifying on screen. She. Didnt. At least. When so 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 types like fanatical Animal Rights activist Timothy Treadwell. Im here with one of my favorite pairs expressed a chocolate iris chocolate hes 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 that are all in the end he was himself killed by a bear. My mind. On that jury after treadwells death in 2003 hertz og followed his trail right to the bitter and. Escaped and. Before long towards for him to move the traitor and so 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 a la you would say and the distributors and producers absolutely want to disregarding 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 and he come to see me and feel can turn it over. To must never listen to this i never heard her have her go into. Think you know you should not keep it you should destroy it. Ethical boundary. Because the dignity and the privacy surrounding an individuals death must not be violated. Period period perfect. 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. I have watched several episodes of your series on death row what boundaries were you confronted with there. When. You talk with and film people on death row with people who know that theyre going to be executed in 8 days and that there is no escaping that then of course there are certain boundaries their. Respect respect dignity. Due to respect to condemned persons human dignity. James 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. Behind the camera i wore a formal suit in time which i almost never do it was a sign i respect you respect. 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 man. If you can look deep into their souls then it works its 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 recognize. But i dont worry about it for me theyre all films as film me. 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 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 odd 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. With 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 shoot center on my giving headphones and said listen. This is how well do it and he understood immediately. Else right there goes music evokes the beauty of nature and its vulnerability. In 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. And it was overwhelming. And the music is equally overwhelming. Like. This one sorry these who 1st raised 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 sri up. 2 in hats oggs films music itself is often our performer such as in the show vacates where dreiser goes music brings the prehistoric paintings to life. In 2019 the vendor had sought Foundation Awarded the prize to reisa he was praised for creating spaces with his music that were larger than what could be seen on the screen. That is so homesick you do dismiss your new good news an extraordinary visionary. 2 in the loggy it until hes 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 saugus 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. Video of him clearly many of your colleagues vendors last frontier were also supposed to direct and by right 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 work in valid one. I said that we had a task and that there would only be an opera when the whole world transformed into music when he can see belt in music from uncle. 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 in this and found. This is bavaria still your home even though you havent lived here for 20 years and toss in many of my Cultural Roots are here right my 1st language was a very and i miss it actually and when im traveling around the world i miss the fact that i never hear bavarian dialect being spoken that it. Was. They shall understand it isnt in that of it its a taco missed consensus and. Just coated satan stilts and turn to. The sun to make this the tumbling of the earth apocalyptic imagery more than 50 years after launching his career had sought still seeks sole scapes on the edges of the planet. He said declines to burst forth if you can 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 distances go taste well to begin with i think its crow task is really good 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. 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. Isnt so much to get this prize 10 years after i stopped making films and have to be rolled under the stage in a wheelchair if you wanted to out there that know how to talk thank you instead of pleasure go. Into the conflict zone with sarah kelly. Put the tough questions to those in power. Challenging the key players face to face its real and hard hitting debate that goes beyond the jargon and helps us better understand whats really. Holding the powerful to account getting to the truth. That is the conflict zone. 13. 00. Home sunday procession in heineken is a centuries old celebratory tradition. The 1st session has been cancelled this year for the 2nd time ever due to the coronavirus. A look at an ancient family tradition. 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