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Short films / New Yorker Films ; directed and narrated by Werner Herzog.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Herzog, Werner, 1942- director, narrator.
Steiner, Walter, associated name.
Cronin, Paul, interviewer.
Werner Herzog Film, producer.
New Yorker Films, producer.
New Yorker Video (Firm), distributor.
Language:
English
German
Subjects (All):
Herzog, Werner, 1942-.
Herzog, Werner.
Steiner, Walter.
Ski jumping.
Auctions--Pennsylvania--New Holland.
Auctions.
Auctioneers--Language.
Auctioneers.
Soufrière (Guadeloupe)--Eruption, 1976.
Soufrière (Guadeloupe).
Pennsylvania--New Holland.
Genre:
Short films.
Documentary films.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([6] pages ; 19 cm)
polychrome
Place of Publication:
[New York, NY] : New Yorker Films, [2005]
Language Note:
"The great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner" is in German with optional English subtitles; "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck" is in English ; "Soufrière" is narrated in English by Herzog.
System Details:
DVD - NTSC.
digital
optical
NTSC
video file
DVD video
Summary:
Three short documentaries from the 1970's by director Werner Herzog. "The great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner" is about Walter Steiner, a Swiss woodcarver and world class ski jumper. "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck" is a visit to the annual world championship of livestock auctioneers in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. "La Soufrière" is about the anticipated eruption of a volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and the man who chooses to stay behind when everyone else evacuates.
Contents:
The great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner = Die grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Schneider (45 min.)
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck = beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache (45 min.)
La Soufrière, warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe = La Soufrière : waiting for an inevitable catastrophe (30 min.)
Notes:
Films were originally produced 1975-1977.
In booklet: excerpts from Paul Cronin's interviews with the director in Herzog on Herzog.
Contains:
Grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Schneider.
Great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck.
Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache.
Soufrière.
ISBN:
1567303897
OCLC:
62208386
Publisher Number:
717119986544
NYD 98605 New Yorker Video

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