Filmseminar Werner Herzog - Doppelprogramm: "Fata Morgane" und "La Soufrière - Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe"

In the organizer's words:

As part of the 22nd Mannheim Film Seminar from January 17-19, we will be showing the films FATA MORGANA and LA SOUFRIÈRE - WARTEN AUF EINE UNAUSWEICHLICHE KATASTROPHE in a double program:

Fata Morgana

DEU 1971. D: Werner Herzog. Essay film. 79 min. FSK: 6

Images not of this world: FATA MORGANA is a visual experience about creation and transformation. Herzog and his regular cameraman Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein visit the Sahara and the Sahel, filming in hypnotic shots. Herzog associatively combines the hallucinatory scenes and poetic images of the fascinating landscape with a Herzogian version of the Popol Vuh, the holy book of the Guatemalan Maya. Lotte H. Eisner, the great film philosopher and Herzog's mentor, reads this creation myth; the visionary collage of images, language and thoughts is accompanied by music by Leonard Cohen and Blind Faith, among others. "Here, perhaps more than in any other Herzog film (with the exception of Aguirre), Herzog's ambivalent understanding of nature is revealed. On the one hand, nature appears in its brute violence, in its destructive power; on the other hand, however, in its pathos-laden overwhelming of the viewer." (filmtipps.at)

La Soufriére - Waiting for an inevitable catastrophe

DEU 1976. D: Werner Herzog. Documentary film. 31 min. FSK: n. A.

La Soufrière, a volcano on Guadeloupe, seems to be on the verge of erupting in 1976. Werner Herzog travels to the island and perseveres together with a small crew: Bold images from the edge of the crater, empty streets, deserted villages - the population is largely evacuated, only this film crew remains and waits for the mountain to explode.

The volcano does not erupt. The catastrophe does not happen. Or has it just been postponed?

Price information:

regular 10€/ reduced 7€/ members Cinema Quadrat e.V. 6€