Viewed spatially, at the other end of the exhibition, namely on the second floor – thematically decorated with a jungle wallpaper that (also a duke effect) seems less exotic than rustic – you can discover the archaic, the murmuring duke, his heavier German tongue stroke became his trademark in America. At least she manages to set some striking accents. The exhibition makes a rudimentary attempt to bring order to this enormous work. Werner Herzog’s insatiable curiosity has not died down, even in his eightieth year. Cryptic-apocalyptic interpretation of the world (The now famous persona “Werner Herzog” also makes its first appearance in the film.) This concept of truth has been misunderstood again and again, most recently in the controversy surrounding the fictitious staging of the documentary film “Lovemobile”, the director of which referred to Herzog. The title actually contains the entire duke, who was in search of an “ecstatic truth” in both documentary and fictional form. On this side of Hollywood’s glamor factor is an alpine veteran to whom Herzog, he says today, dedicated his first major film in 1974: the Swiss ski jumper Walter Steiner, the flying hero from “The Great Ecstasy of the Carver Steiner”. In a way, you are at the other end of the spectrum of “Wernerwelt”, whose gates will remain open until the end of March. The actress is not alone with her memories, Christian Bale and Robert Pattinson also share their experiences with Herzog as talking heads on video screens. Kidman’s testimonial can currently also be seen in the “Werner Herzog” exhibition, which the Kinemathek presented to the – and this certainly does not do the Fassbinders, Schlöndorffs and Wenders wrong – the greatest German filmmaker of the past fifty years for his upcoming 80th birthday. That sounds like an amusement park, like a cinema in your head, like a country full of unlimited possibilities – and it reflects the temperament of this imaginary and concrete place, where human imagination seems to have no limits. The actress Nicole Kidman makes the most appropriate and perhaps even the most affectionate suggestion to get to the heart of this unique mixture of worldview and world-making in Thomas von Steinaecker’s portrait film “Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer”, which will be released in October.
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