Herzog [Blu-ray] : the collection

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Herzog the collection

(2014)

Fiction

Blu-ray

Call Numbers:

BLU-RAY/FOREIGN/GERMAN/HERZOG Part 1
BLU-RAY/FOREIGN/GERMAN/HERZOG Part 2

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Movies	BLU-RAY/FOREIGN/GERMAN/HERZOG Part 1	Available
Movies	BLU-RAY/FOREIGN/GERMAN/HERZOG Part 2	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

[Los Angeles, California] : Shout! Factory, [2014?]

DESCRIPTION

13 videodiscs (approximately 1519 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 volume (45 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm)

ISBN/ISSN

9786315614811 SF15017, 826663150179 SF15018, SF15019, SF15020, SF15021, SF15022, SF15023, SF15024, SF15025, SF15026, SF15027, SF15028, SF15029, SF15030

LANGUAGE

German

NOTES

Films released between 1970 and 1999

[disc 1]. Even dwarfs started small / written, produced and directed by Werner Herzog (original title Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen, 1970, 96 min., German) -- [disc 2]. Land of silence and darkness / directed and produced by Werner Herzog (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit, 1971, 85 min., German, English) -- Fata morgana / written, produced and directed by Werner Herzog (1971, 76 min., German, English) -- [disc 3]. Aguirre, the wrath of God / written, produced and directed by Werner Herzog (original title Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes, 1972, 94 min., German, English) -- [disc 4]. The enigma of Kaspar Hauser / written, produced and directed by Werner Herzog (original title Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle, 1974, 109 min., German) -- [disc 5]. Heart of glass / written, produced and directed by Werner Herzog (original title Herz aus Glas, 1976, 94 min., German) -- [disc 6]. Stroszek / written, produced and directed by Werner Herzog (1977, 107 min., German) -- [disc 7]. Woyzeck / produced and directed by Werner Herzog (1979, 80 min., German) --[dics 8]. Nosferatu the vampyre / written, produced and directed by Werner Herzog (original title Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, German, English, 1979, 107 min.) -- [disc 9]. Fitzcarraldo / produced by Werner Herzog and Lucki Stipetic ; directed by Werner Herzog (1982, 157 min., German, English) -- [disc 10]. Ballad of the little soldier / written and directed by Werner Herzog and Denis Reichle ; produced by Werner Herzog (original title Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten, 1984, 45 min., German, English) -- Where the green ants dream / written by Werner Herzog ; produced by Lucki Stipetic ; directed by Werner Herzog (original title Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen, 1984, 105 min., German, English) -- [disc 11]. Cobra Verde / produced by Lucki Stipetic ; directed by Werner Herzog (1987, 110 min., German, English) -- [disc 12]. Lessons of darkness / produced by Paul Berriff and Werner Herzog ; written and directed by Werner Herzog (original title Lektionen in Finsternis, 1992, 50 min., English) -- Little Dieter needs to fly / produced by Lucki Stipetic ; produced, directed and narrated by Werner Herzog (1997, 74 min., English) -- [disc 13]. My best fiend / a co-production of Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Munich, Café Productions, London, and Zephir Film, Dusseldorf, for the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC in collaboration with WDR, Cologne [and 3 others] ; producer, Lucki Stipetic ; directed and narrated by Werner Herzog (original title Mein liebster Feind, 1999, 100 min., German, English)

Even dwarfs started small: The inmates have taken over an institution in a bleak and savage world in which everyone's a dwarf. Never one to take the easy path, Werner Herzog followed the success of his first feature with a film that shocked, disturbed and enraged critics and audiences around the world, yet whose influence can still be seen today in the works of filmmakers such as David Lynch and Harmony Korine. Featuring a cast composed entirely of little people, Even dwarfs started small is a brutal, uncompromising allegory about the consequences of imprisonment and rebellion

Title from book

Land of silence and darkness: A documentary about 56 year-old Fini Straubinger, blind and deaf since her teens

Special features include: audio commentary by Herzog, actor Crispin Glover, and others; selected theatrical trailers

Fata morgana: Herzog brings his cameras to the Sahara desert in order to film mirages. He combines the apocalyptic, often hallucinatory images of the desert with passages from the Mayan creation myth, the Popol Vuh, set to songs of Leonard Cohen

Book features critical commentary by Stephen J. Smith, Chris Wahl, and Brad Prager

Aguirre, the wrath of God: A band of Spanish conquistadors are sent by Pizarro to go up the Amazon in search of gold. As the soldiers and two women battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is consumed by visions of conquering all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a death trip

Full screen or wide screen (1.85:1)

The enigma of Kasper Hauser: Based on a real historical event, this is the story of Kaspar Hauser, a young man who appeared in a small German town in 1820 after having lived in total isolation from humans since birth. He is taught to speak, read, and write by townspeople, but is then mysteriously murdered

Even dwarfs started small: Helmut Döring, Gerd Gickel, Gisela Hertwig, Paul Glauer

Heart of glass: Set in the 18th-century, this film tells of a Bavarian village that loses the secret of making its unique ruby glass. The townspeople turn to madness, murder, and magic in a desperate effort to recover the pure ingredient they have lost. During the filming, Herzog hypnotized his actors in order to help convey the atmosphere of hallucination, prophecy and the visionary

Land of silence and darkness: narrators, Rolf Illig, Fini Straubinger

Stroszek: Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten by the thugs who have been Eva's pimps, they join Bruno's neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin

Fata morgana: narrator, Lotte Eisner

Woyzeck: A soldier is driven into madness by his superiors, his wife and his doctors

Aguirre, the wrath of God: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra

Nosferatu, the vampire: The vampire, Count Orlock, craves blood but also contact, acceptance, and love from humanity

The enigma of Kasper Hauser: Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira,

Fitzcarraldo: Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town

Heart of glass: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Volker Prechtel, Clemens Scheitz

Ballad of the little soldier: Portrait of Nicaragua's Miskito Indian tribe who were persecuted by the Somoza regime and then fought the Sandinistas with guerrilla units composed largely of children

Stroszek: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz

Where the green ants dream: Lance Hackett is a sympathetic geologist working in Australia for an uranium mining company who must confront the passive resistance of the aborigine tribes. For the aboriginal people, the place where the deposits lay is considered the place "where the green ants dream" and for them this place is considered the origin of all life. In the clash with white imperialism, we see the irrevocable tragedy of false progress, in which civilization has lost touch with nature and the universe

Woyzeck: Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge

Lessons of darkness: A documentary of 1992 post-Gulf War Kuwait, focusing on the oil well fires ignited by retreating Iraqi soldiers

Nosferatu, the vampire: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Jacques Dufilho

Little Dieter needs to fly: Growing up in post-WWII Germany, all Dieter Dengler, the son of a Nazi slain during the war, dreamed about was becoming a pilot. At age 18 he emigrated to the United States and worked odd jobs until he was accepted into the Navy and began pilot training. He was sent to Vietnam around 1966 and on his first mission was shot down and taken prisoner. There, the Vietcong tortured him until Dengler engineered a hair-raising escape and eventually returned to the U.S. His story is recounted here via interviews with Dengler, archival footage and new footage seamlessly spliced together

Fitzcarraldo: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Angel Fuentes

Cobra verde: Francisco Manoel da Silva, 19th century, gun-toting Brazilian bandit known as the Cobra Verde, is unknowingly hired by the owner of a sugar plantation to keep his slaves in check, but instead, the Cobra manages to sleep with the landowner's daughters and impregnate them. In revenge, the owner sends the Cobra on a dangerous mission to sail to the West coast of Africa and reopen the slave trade, and the Cobra wages war with a local tribal king

Ballad of the little soldier: narrator, Werner Herzog

My best fiend: Documentary with film excerpts about the stormy relationship between frequent artistic partners, director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski

Where the green ants dream: Bruce Spence Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Norman Kay, Ray Barrett

Cobra verde: Klaus Kinski, King Ampaw, José Lewgoy, Salvatore Basile, Peter Berling, Guillermo Coronel

Little Dieter needs to fly: Dieter Dengler ; narrator, Werner Herzog

My best fiend: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, Eva Mattes, Beat Presser, Guillermo Rios, Andrés Vicente, Justo González

Blu-ray, region A, 1080p high definition; requires Blu-ray player for viewing

Stereo soundtracks in German or English or both, optional subtitles in English; some have English or German commentaries