Of Walking in Ice: Munich-Paris, 23 November-14 December 1974 - Brossura

Herzog, Werner

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0816697329 ISBN 13: 9780816697328

Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2015

Riassunto

In late November 1974, filmmaker Werner Herzog received a phone call from Paris delivering some terrible news. German film historian, mentor, and close friend Lotte Eisner was seriously ill and dying. Herzog was determined to prevent this and believed that an act of walking would keep Eisner from death. He took a jacket, a compass, and a duffel bag of the barest essentials, and wearing a pair of new boots, set off on a three-week pilgrimage from Munich to Paris through the deep chill and snowstorms of winter.

Of Walking in Ice is Herzog’s beautifully written, much-admired, yet often-overlooked diary account of that journey. Herzog documents everything he saw and felt on his quest to his friend’s bedside, from poetic descriptions of the frozen landscape and harsh weather conditions to the necessity of finding shelter in vacant or abandoned houses and the intense loneliness of his solo excursion.

Includes, for the first time, Werner Herzog’s 1982 “Tribute to Lotte Eisner” upon her receipt of the Helmut Käutner Prize

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L'autore:

Werner Herzog has produced, written, and directed more than fifty films, including Nosferatu the Vampyre; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Fitzcarraldo; and Grizzly Man. He grew up in a remote mountain village in Bavaria and now lives in Los Angeles, California.

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• Editore: Univ of Minnesota Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0816697329
• ISBN 13: 9780816697328
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 125