Werner Herzog - Selfportrait / Selbstportrait (1986)

Full version (deutsch / english subtitles). In this production directed by Herzog himself, "Portrait Werner Herzog" shows him at a time and from a cultural angle that countless more recent interviews and profiles don't. We see his footage of Munich's elaborately boisterous Oktoberfest; we see him in the green Bavarian valley of his youth. "I'm the kind of person who travels on foot," he explains, "even for long distances." This leads to the story of his walk from Munich to Paris to visit the ailing film critic Lotte Eisner (whom Herzog calls "the consciousness of the new German cinema"), which became his book "Of Walking In Ice". He speaks of hypnotizing an entire cast for "Heart of Glass", of fighting the aggressively filmmaking-unfriendly Peruvian jungle to shoot "Fitzcarraldo", and of planning a never-realized Himalayan film starring frequent (and frequently volatile) collaborator Klaus Kinski. "Here we can truly see how hard it is to make a film," so Herzog sums up his struggle, "but this is my life, and I don't want to live it in any other way." In that respect, nothing has changed in 25 years.

[@marco6703]

We just love you Werner.

[@tiernanjo]

Unreal, thank you. First time I’ve seen footage of Mick Jagger in the first take of Fitzcarraldo

[@shyman3000]

Thank you for this upload. My favorite director and I never knew this existed. I loved it.

[@cruhdav8850]

he is just the best.

[@nathanyuhas7111]

I love how they replaced "Kinski" with "the actors" in the subtitles when talking about trekking up a mountain

[@MonsieurCorbusier]

he said "the actors and kinski". He mentioned him specifically because at the time he was already above 50.

[@JS-pm6pd]

Sehr interessant. Danke fuer den Upload!

[@Karolpa1138]

Was für eine Stimme...

[@primitivism]

the English translation from the subtitles is only very loosely based on the spoken words, missing out on words in almost every sentence and translating things wrong quite often. the translator obviously did not learn German as his mother tongue. just fyi, thank you very much for the upload!

[@ChristianEdenFilm]

Interessante Doku! Thx

[@mot00rzysta]

thank you very much for upload

[@TheBaldra]

Herzog Herzog que grande sos!

[@doomsdayZen]

Wonderful. Thank you for posting it.

[@skriptico]

Uuh! Did not know about this! :O love ya! Thanks a lot.

[@foreverblkeyed]

how can you tell herzog is german? caus he marched from munich to paris in 2 weeks. lol.

[@Vingul]

Not German -- Bavarian. He he ;)

[@Flammenhagel]

@@Vingul bavarians are generally warmer than germans - a bit like italians

[@sunesunee879]

​@@Flammenhagel
Nuh uhh

[@dungeondragon7]

and i thought i had it bad cuz i couldnt get location permision for a suburban high school

[@buchbehandlung]

er sollte mal zum altschauerberg pilgern und filmen

[@dirtyunclehubert]

"an diesem tag schrie und tobte winkler besonders schlimm, er drohte sogar mich umzubringen. ich ließ ihn toben und drehte dann die szene."

[@malereileviathan1127]

@@dirtyunclehubert immer noch gefickt von herrn winkler?

[@pimpmyimp9611]

Was habe ich mir da gerade angesehen.

[@urszulaserafin6057]

Gibt es eine deutsche Version?

[@DrMuganda]

Was der Spinner wohl mit Kinski auf dem Himalaya filmen wollte...

[@TheSoteriologist]

Ich halte ihn für wahnsinniger als Kinski und habe immer weniger Sympathien mit dem Leiden, welche seine fixen Ideen verursachten.

[@AudioPervert1]

far out Herzog