Letzte Worte

Werner Herzog

IndieLisboa 2009 •

Germany, Fiction, 1968, 13′

Shot on Crete and the ghost island Spinalonga in two days during the filming of Herzog’s feature “Signs of Life”. It tells the story of the last man to leave the abandoned island of Spinalonga, which had been used as a leper colony. The man repeatedly explains that he refuses to speak, even a single word.