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Title
Herzog : the collection.
Publication
[Los Angeles, California] : Shout! Factory, [2014?]
Physical Description
13 videodiscs (approximately 1519 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (45 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm)
Notes
Films released between 1970 and 1999.
Title from book.
Special features include: audio commentary by Herzog, actor Crispin Glover, and others; selected theatrical trailers.
Book features critical commentary by Stephen J. Smith, Chris Wahl, and Brad Prager.
Full screen or wide screen (1.85:1).
Stereo soundtracks in German or English or both, optional subtitles in English; some have English or German commentaries.
Summary
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.
Land of silence and darkness: A documentary about 56 year-old Fini Straubinger, blind and deaf since her teens.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Woyzeck: A soldier is driven into madness by his superiors, his wife and his doctors.
Nosferatu, the vampire: The vampire, Count Orlock, craves blood but also contact, acceptance, and love from humanity.
Fitzcarraldo: Story of a man obsessed with a dream to build his own personal opera house in a remote Peruvian town.
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.
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.
Lessons of darkness: A documentary of 1992 post-Gulf War Kuwait, focusing on the oil well fires ignited by retreating Iraqi soldiers.
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.
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.
My best fiend: Documentary with film excerpts about the stormy relationship between frequent artistic partners, director Werner Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski.
Variant and related titles
Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen (Motion picture)
Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (Motion picture)
Fata Morgana (Motion picture)
Fata Morgana (Motion picture). English.
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Motion picture)
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Motion picture). English.
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (Motion picture)
Herz aus Glas (Motion picture)
Stroszek (Motion picture)
Woyzeck (Motion picture)
Nosferatu (Motion picture : 1979)
Nosferatu (Motion picture : 1979). English.
Fitzcarraldo (Motion picture)
Fitzcarraldo (Motion picture). English.
Ballad der kleinen Soldaten (Motion picture)
Ballad der kleinen Soldaten (Motion picture). English.
Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen (Motion picture)
Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen (Motion picture). English.
Cobra Verde.
Cobra Verde. English.
Lektionen in Finsternis (Motion picture)
Little Dieter needs to fly (Motion picture)
Mein liebster Feind (Motion picture)
Mein liebster Feind (Motion picture). English.
Even dwarfs started small.
Land of silence and darkness.
Aguirre, the wrath of God.
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser.
Heart of glass.
Ballad of the little soldier.
Where the green ants dream.
Lessons of darkness.
My best fiend.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
German; English
Added to Catalog
May 14, 2018
Performers
Land of silence and darkness: narrators, Rolf Illig, Fini Straubinger.
Fata morgana: narrator, Lotte Eisner.
Ballad of the little soldier: narrator, Werner Herzog.
Cast
Even dwarfs started small: Helmut Döring, Gerd Gickel, Gisela Hertwig, Paul Glauer.
Aguirre, the wrath of God: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra.
The enigma of Kasper Hauser: Bruno S., Walter Ladengast, Brigitte Mira,
Heart of glass: Josef Bierbichler, Stefan Güttler, Volker Prechtel, Clemens Scheitz.
Stroszek: Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz.
Woyzeck: Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge.
Nosferatu, the vampire: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Jacques Dufilho.
Fitzcarraldo: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy, Miguel Angel Fuentes.
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.
System details note
Blu-ray, region A, 1080p high definition; requires Blu-ray player for viewing.
Contents
[Disc 1] Even Dwarfs Started Small [Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen] (Subtitled) / Werner Herzog (1970, 96 min., West Germany)
[Disc 2] Land of Silence and Darkness [Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit] (Subtitled) / Werner Herzog (1971, 85 min., West Germany)
Fata Morgana (includes English audio track and German audio track with English subtitles) / Werner Herzog (1971, 79 min., West Germany)
[Disc 3] Aguirre, the Wrath of God [Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes] (includes English audio track and German audio track with English subtitles) / Werner Herzog (1972, 93 min., West Germany)
[Disc 4] Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, The [Jeder fur sich und Gott gegen alle] (Subtitled) / Werner Herzog (1974, 110 min., West Germany)
[Disc 5] Heart of Glass [Herz aus Glas] (Subtitled) / Werner Herzog (1976, 94 min., West Germany)
[Disc 6] Stroszek (Subtitled) / Werner Herzog (1977, 115 min., West Germany)
[Disc 7] Woyzeck (Subtitled) / Werner Herzog (1979, 82 min., West Germany)
[Disc 8] Nosferatu the Vampyre [Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht] (includes English audio track and German audio track with English subtitles) / Werner Herzog (1979, 107 min., West Germany/Togo/France)
[Disc 9] Fitzcarraldo (includes English audio track and German audio track with English subtitles) / Werner Herzog (1982, 158 min., Peru/West Germany)
[Disc 10] Ballad of the Little Solder [Ballade vom Kleinen Soldaten] (includes English audio track and German audio track with English subtitles) / Werner Herzog/Denis Reichle (1984, 46 min., West Germany)
Where the Green Ants Dream (includes English audio track and German audio track with English subtitles) / Werner Herzog (1984, 100 min., Australia/West Germany)
[Disc 11] Cobra Verde (includes English audio track and German audio track with English subtitles) / Werner Herzog (1987, 111 min., Ghana/West Germany)
[Disc 12] Lessons of Darkness [Lektionen in Finsternis] (in English) / Werner Herzog (1992, 50 min., France/Germany/United Kingdom)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (in English) / Werner Herzog (1997, 80 min., United Kingdom/Germany/France)
[Disc 13] My Best Fiend [Mein Liebster Feind] (includes English audio track and German audio track with English subtitles) / Werner Herzog (1999, 95 min., Finland/Germany/United Kingdom/United States).
Videorecording number
SF15017 Shout Factory
SF15018 Shout! Factory
SF15019 Shout! Factory
SF15020 Shout! Factory
SF15021 Shout! Factory
SF15022 Shout! Factory
SF15023 Shout! Factory
SF15024 Shout! Factory
SF15025 Shout! Factory
SF15026 Shout! Factory
SF15027 Shout! Factory
SF15028 Shout! Factory
SF15029 Shout! Factory
SF15030 Shout! Factory
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biographical films.
Biography.
Documentary films.
Drama.
Experimental films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
History.
Made-for-TV movies.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Made-for-TV movies.
Biographical films.
Experimental films.
Fiction films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
Shout! Factory (Firm), film distributor.
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