Divided in three chapters: Creation, Paradise and The Golden Age. Narrated by three different German narrators: Film historian Lotte Eisner, Eugen Des Montagnes, and Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg. The term which has become this film’s title, Fata Morgana, refers to mirages, and is an apt title for this work shot in the deserts of North Africa. It is a rhythmic, musical succession of images and short scenes.
Secção: Retrospectivas | Retrospectives
In his first documentary since “Grizzly Man”, Werner Herzog, accompanied only by his cameraman, traveled to Antarctica, with rare access to the raw beauty and raw humanity of the ultimate Down Under. Herzog’s latest meditation on nature, explores this land of Fire, Ice and corrosive Solitude.
A satire on the state of war and peace and the absurdities it inspires.
Documentary film made as part of a series for a German television station, about celebrated ski-jumper champion Walter Steiner who works as a carpenter for his full-time occupation.
Filmed in Ghana, Brazil, and Colombia, “Cobra Verde” is a 19th century true-life tale about a Brazilian bandit known as Cobra Verde (played by Klaus Kinski) who is exiled to West Africa to rejuvenate the slave trade. Once he’s in Africa, his sanity is put to the ultimate test. The film follows Cobra Verde’s descent into total madness and self-destruction.
Werner Herzog’s bleak vision of a rebellion and the resulting mayhem in an institution. The entire world is inhabited by midgets.
A film about children soldiers tragically caught up in the Miskito Indian resistance of Nicaragua.
Final film in Nolot’s trilogy on aspects of gay life. 58-year-old Pierre (Nolot), a former gigolo turned author who is HIV-positive, finds himself increasingly unable to cope with loneliness and the outside world. It’s his reaction to an old friend’s death. The film it’s a caustic comedy-drama where no one grows old gracefully.
Using a minimalist dialogue, the story follows the travels of Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who leads a group of conquistadors down the Amazon River in South America in search of the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. A whole army disappears into the jungle without a trace. A story of power and madness.
A passionate seductive woman, Cleopatra conciliates historical knowledge, political ambition, gallantry, strategy, and total ambition for power at the confluence of the Greek and Egyptian cultures. Not an epic Cleopatra, but a lyrical Cleopatra.
The story of Brazilian pop music of the fist half of the 20th century, built upon the mythical figure of singer Mário Reis. His solitary and mysterious life, his loves, his very particular repertory, are the background of this movie filmed in Rio de Janei
A lover of literature and the classic texts, São Jerónimo lives in the desert collecting, copying and translating the sacred texts, a work that leads him to Rome. When the Pope Damaso dies he returns to the desert for a life of penitence and with a great
In London, a ripper repeatedly kills young blood girls.
The film ironically narrates the journey of a native soul through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. In the beginning of this journey without return the main character finds a platinum blonde felt on earth, covered with yellow and green cloths and asking for h
An assassin and a seer meet at a desert road. He is at the wheels of his Chevrolet, short hair, a flower behind his ear. She is walking in the asphalt, red lipstick, a dress full of flowers and no sleeves, and red shoes, the same color of her lipstick. Af
A boy kills his father and mother by stab and goes to the cinema to see “Lost for Love”. A young, rich and bored wife decides to spent her vacations in Petropolis while her mother waits her to give up the idea of divorce. A man kills a woman for love. A
A true story about an inexplicable childhood event.
A man reads a book. Ordinary enough, the only problem he is that he is sentenced to death and supposed scheduled to be shot in ten minutes time. It seems quite obviously, that he will not get to the end of the story.
Based on an unfinished short story b