This year’s HSBC German Film Festival celebrates 70 years of German cinema with an ode to one of Germany’s most loved and acclaimed auteurs in the sidebar Burden of Dreams: Films of Werner Herzog.
The program includes the 2022 documentary WERNER HERZOG: RADICAL DREAMER from filmmaker Thomas von Steinaecker, which features clips of Herzog’s works and interviews with collaborators and admirers including Chloe Zhao, Wim Wenders, Nicole Kidman and Robert Pattinson.
Selected features include his early work, the 1972 existential odyssey AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes) which follows a doomed 16th Century Spanish expedition searching for El Dorado in the Amazon, led by the power-hungry Don Lope de Aguirre (played by Klaus Kinski); FITZCARRALDO, also starring Kinski, about an audacious quest to haul a steamship over a Peruvian mountain; the enigmatic and experimental HEART OF GLASS(Herz aus Glas); his gothic horror adaptation of NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (Nosferatu – Phantom der Nacht) with Klaus Kinski in the role of Dracula; and celebrating the 50th anniversary of its release, THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle) the remarkable story based on real events, of a young man raised in isolation.
The Festival returns to Perth 16 May – 5 June at Palace Cinemas Raine Square, Luna Leederville and Luna on SX and you can view the full programme online at www.germanfilmfestival.com.au.
