Strange Places, Strange People Documentaries of Werner Herzog
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Goethe Institut presents documentaries from the celebrated director of German cinema, Werner Herzog. His documentaries often invite comparison to his fiction productions because they deal with similar issues. The screenings have been broadly divided into three groups. The first category roughly falls under ‘adventure’ films that include La Soufriere, which is about a volcano that was about to erupt in the West Indies, but ultimately didn’t, and The Dark Glow of the Mountains.
The second category is called ‘parables of power’ with astonishing films that include one about a Los Angeles preacher, God’s Angry Soldier, and Sombre Empire, a story of a French army captain who crowns himself the emperor. The third category, features only one documentary, The Land of Silence and Darkness, a film about the marginalised and the socially segregated.
Strange Places, Strange People, 3 to 11 June, Goethe-Institut/ Max Mueller Bhavan, 16 CMH Road, Indiranagar 1st Stage, Bengaluru. For more information, visit goethe.de/bangalore
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