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DVD

Short films

Call Number

  • DVD 791.43 S55956 (CEN)

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Languages

The first work is in German with optional English subtitles, the second is in English and the third is narrated in English by Herzog.

Publication Information

[New York] : New Yorker Films, [2005]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Three short documentaries from the 1970's by the director Werner Herzog. Die grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Schneider is about Walter Steiner, a Swiss woodcarver and world class ski jumper. How much wood... is a visit to the annual world championship of livestock auctioneers in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. La Soufrière is about the anticipated eruption of a volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and the man who chooses to stay behind when everyone else evacuates.

Notes

Title from DVD menu screen.

Contents

  • Die grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Schneider = The great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner (45 min.) (1975)
  • How much wood would a woodchuck chuck-- : beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache (45 min.) (1977)
  • La Soufrière : warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe = La Soufrière : waiting for an inevitable catastrophe (30 min.) (1977).

Subjects

Added Authors

Werner Herzog