The. Van it has all its a 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. Among them was that i would make films that i was also a kind of poet. The. 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 cinema myself. If i was. Missing. One. 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 health songs trademark. In 1979 released nosferatu his amash to f. W. More now silent film classic much more than a remake it was his 1st Big International production ignited suit and could be duty. Its good if you play it personally. Please let me do it its you. Forget it its hardly worth mentioning just a little cut. 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 1st since it in because you know the cult status is a term you should only touch with pincers having 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 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 the fact that something was. Done and. Someone who is prepared to defy gravity to realize his lifes dream pushing boundaries is a constant theme and hair talks work. Hes into if youve been an extreme environments extreme situations what drives you to this day to seek out these extremes. 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. This is more involved. Katsav return to the jungle again for the vietnam war drama rescue dawn. That was a big american production but headstock is also a nonconformist in hollywood for. The theory and with the will of a. Minute there. And a passion for unhinged characters. Whether. Youve called bad lieutenant of a very in film solvents from the wild and baroque. Wilder than the wildest drinkers at october fest really goes to extremes and. Back to the big. Surely guess what full soul still dancing. See how 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 theyre learning film theory or other such nonsense. They could learn everything they need to know in a week. Everything else is technical. Can be left to the technicians. You can learn about filmmaking from veron or hair song online. Instrumentals to cowards. But theres more. I found at the rogue film school. It was designed to be the exact opposite of everything youd normally learn in film school. There are only 2 things i tell people they really learn. The 1st time out or pick a safety lock using a surgical instrument. And 2nd how to fake a filming permit to not kick. In. Recently ive switched to doing more workshops. I 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 if the tale of the 16th century spanish comes he said or searching for. This feverish drama tackles imperialism greed and meddling mania shot in documentary style to follow on his historical suicide mission. Thanks. In the end klaus kinski goes mad in a scene that broke film history. Ott. It was. A good day and later fitzgerald though already made headlines during shooting largely due to the unpredictable lead actor klaus kinski he made 5 films with parents ought to work through their productive love hate relationship in a documentary. They dont much about people going to friends over its not going to talk about it more than it. Was in the 1st starting small model yours didnt talk much about that event but then because of that you know. I was not looking so i was i thought i didnt want to join the Sports Community and im the president can scale model for me since i was going to get into these and the 2nd i never got this feeling. Some green lost didnt get lost in the star theyre still actors as extreme as class kinski was. He intended instance extreme i dont consider him extreme can skew was kinski to be. 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 why no one. Not any one of them. Ever came close to porno as is depth into charisma. Or his ability to convey isolation and paresi. 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. They just seem normal i mean model being in this state it still would be to little sadly a big issue to produce a little. Bit of a side to side with think. This stuff could slip the feast. Xenon. The family get it. 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. Vienna had talked 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. Spent my 1st winter. Coat out in one. Piece for the frostbite time and again green. Bay how was it how did you manage to be that evil. Or was it was effortless to totally effortless work says i didnt have to do a screen test and i knew that i could do it and who come to us i earn good money for being terrifying on screen if you want to see. The line. That hes. Been so many other states not. That i have sought 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. Diversity that. Im now living 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 end. Escaped and. Taught Timothy Treadwell there is an audio recording of the death of Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend. Both of them are eaten by a bear eaten alive piece by bees well the thing and the distributors and producers absolutely want to disregarding to be in the film and so i said ok ill listen to it. And i listened 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 film can turn into. 2 must never listen to this i never heard her pimp ever go into. This including you should not keep it you should destroy it yeah its anything she can see its made sense ethical boundary individually toward because the dignity and the privacy surrounding an individuals death must not be violated. Period period perfect. Yet hertz are didnt shy away from interviewing condemned prisoners awaiting execution for as many series on death row. As a chairman coming from a different historical background and being a guest in the United States i respectfully disagree with the practice of Capital Punishment and help me move forward ive watched several episodes of your series on death row what boundaries were you confronted with there. When c. Its mentioned and told us 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 theres no escaping that then of course there are certain boundaries their. Respect respect dignity. Due to respect to condemned persons human dignity. James barnes 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 and behind the camera i wore a formal suit and tie which i almost never do where it was a sign i respect you with because. They were always very open with you. From 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. 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 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. The facts can be misleading 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. In folk. 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 off made the White Diamond a documentary about dreams and the limitations of technology. The dream of flying a floating above the earth here to hertz og dared to experiment. In that 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 it centered 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. To the scene im to tired 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. And it was overwhelming. And the music is equally overwhelming. This one sorry these who 1st raised who are 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 shri. 2 enhance august films music itself is often a performer such as in the show of a case where dreiser goes music brings the prehistoric paintings to life. In 2019 the vendor had sought Foundation Awarded a prize to rice if 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 dismiss your new good news an extraordinary visionary. 2 in the log event of hes able to transform an entire world with music and to transform a world of images and suddenly you 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 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 buy of Wight Festival in 1987. Video of him clearly 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 work in film i said that we had a task and that there would only be an opera when the whole world transformed into music and you can see built in music from it. So that some fear back to film youve been in some very extreme places in the mountains in the amazon under water in the desert on the ice caps is there anything else that youre still seeking or that youd like to explore more. If 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. This is bavaria still your home even though you havent lived here for 20 years and seen many of my Cultural Roots are here my 1st language was a very and i miss it actually. You know when im traveling around the world i miss the fact that i never hear bavarian dialect being spoken. Ish understand it isnt in that of it its a talk list consensus and. Just go to its a cinch to its own country as it. Was sung to miss the tumbling of the earth apocalyptic imagery more than 50 years after launching his career had sought still seeks soul schemes on the edges of the planet. The society plans to burst forth if you can this country i do. Love you have been winning prizes for your Lifetime Achievement for 10 years now this time its from the European Film Academy and how does that feel for the. Su makes them i mean if you distances go taste well to begin with i think its crow task. 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. 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. He horded to out there that know how to talk thank you its been a pleasure let go. People are now merged reality wait a 2nd we want the whole picture our facts instead of make ideas shift deliver us. From other reality to cryptocurrency your topics for live in an ever changing Digital World lets start with digitize ation shipped. For 15 minutes now and w. The palm sunday procession in highland games time is a centuries old celebratory tradition. The procession has been cancelled this year for the 2nd time ever due to the coronavirus. A look at an engine and Family Tradition of. 30 minutes on d w. 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