Max, 40 years old, still young, walk about from one railway-station to another looking for young men. Pretending to be heterosexual, he takes his new prey to the “Bois de Boulogne” in order to achieve what he pretends… What’s important is not to realize things but to know that they are possible.
In the 1950s, when Herzog was 13 years old, he was sharing an apartment with Klaus Kinski, an egomaniacal artist. From the chaos a beautiful albeit volatile partnership was born. In 1972, Herzog cast Kinski in “Aguirre”. Four more films would follow. Herzog traces the often violent up and downs of their relationship, revisiting Munich apartment where they first met — and thrashed, and the various locations of their films.
Driss’ friends warn him, but the handsome young man insists on trying to strike a friendship with Fouad, the hermetic middle-aged owner of a run-down beach cafe. Fouad ends up questioning Driss’ manhood. Driss soon becomes caught up in contradictions and rumors as complex and mysterious as the seductive sights and sounds of Paul Bowles’ vision of Morocco.
During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.
The inside of a pub or a bar, it’s somewhere – and it’s during the night. The café is empty, it’s just after the closing time. The owner is, slowly, getting ready to leave. The lady made herself a last little coffee (with a touch oh whisky). A man started reading out loud the text written by hand in his notebook.
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.
Some night in an bar in a country district, some of the locals wait for Christiane, back in country after a long absence. A stranger also arrives. He’s had troubles with his girlfriend. A complicity rises between him and Christiane.
Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leaves.
Several years after “Fata Morgana”, Herzog again perceives the desert as a landscape with its own voice. Virtually devoid of commentary, the imagery concentrates on the aftermath of the first Gulf War – specifically on the Kuwaiti oil fires.
Two brothers meet for the first time in ten years. One of them became an actor in Paris. Passing through their village, he stops at his brother’s hair saloon, which used to belong to their father. They don’t have anything in common anymore, not even their name. The gap is irreparable.
After ten years away, Jacques Pruez, an unmarried, 50-year-old, modestly successful actor, returns to his home village in southwest France when he learns that his mother is dying. He stays around to attend the funeral and support his aging father. As he does so, the gulf between the life he once new as a child and his life now as a middle-aged man becomes painfully apparent.
In a sleazy Parisian pornographic cinema, the bored ticket seller tells the story of her life to an attractive young projectionist. Her intention isn’t to chat the young man up. It’s to get him into bed with one of her clients, a fifty-year-old homosexual.
A mysterious foundling emerges from a dark cellar where he has spent his youth, and, as if fallen from another planet, has no concept of this world. Based on the legendary true story of Kaspar Hauser, his captors and murderers remain unknown to this day. The film’s original German title is means “Every man for himself and God against them all”.
A young man leaves his native town in southern France to discover Paris. Being too inexperienced and too naive, he drops into the reality of Paris 1991. He soon gives up his dream of becoming an actor and prostitutes himself. Throughout all these modern relationships, he keeps his innocence but becomes very emotionally blocked.
Film about faith and superstition in Russia, a look deep into the Russian soul.
The film relates to six of the twelve labours of Heracles. It starts with shots of young male bodybuilders working out in a gym, posing on a stage and flexing their muscles.
Set in 18th century Bavaria. The main character is Hias, based on the legendary Bavarian prophet Mühlhiasl. “Heart of Glass” is a motion picture about a figure who has apocalyptic visions and foresees destruction and collective madness. The entire cast acted under hypnosis.
The title character Fitzcarraldo (Kinski) is an obsessed opera lover and an indomitable spirit who wants to build an opera in the Amazonian jungle. To accomplish this he has to pull a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory that will bring him a fortune. The story was inspired by the real life Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fermín Fitzcarrald.