You better have zogby is a film legend the german director has made over 70 films ranging from art house to big hollywood productions hes traveled to the ends of the earth and peered into the depths of the human soul. He mentions that movie the most. Hes created iconic characters to images in feature films and documentaries. Always searching for a deeper truth his perspective is investigative and radically subjective van i have song of the adventurer. We met up with this great scent. Mattick storyteller in munich where his story began. When did it become clear to you that you had to and could make films. When i was around 14 or 15 years old when various things happened at the same time which made my fate apparent to me. Among them was that i would make films that i was also a kind of poet. The. And it was always clear to me that i would do this better than others. It was also clear that since i knew little about film and had seen almost nothing i would have to invent the cinema myself. So. Very 1st feature film was a declaration of war on the triviality of postwar german cinema. And this anarchic surreal and disturbing drama about dwarves raising a riot at a correctional facility caused controversy upon its release in 1970 s. Showing the point of view of outsiders and people on society its fringes became hets ogs trademark. In 1979 the release notes put out to his all mushed f. W. Moore now silent film classic much more than a remake it was his 1st Big International production the night it suited could be duty. But its good if you personally. Please let me do it. Because its hardly worth mentioning just a little. Even yes i feel youve lived in los angeles in the heart of the dream factory for many years. Youve said you dont really feel part of the german film scene but in the us you enjoy a cult status as a bavarian in Hollywood Hollywood superstar 1st. Since 1st since it in because you know the cult status is a term you should only touch with pincers has been but it gets really wild when i show up in brazil for example or in russia poland ireland or algeria all hell breaks loose when i show up there with films. You say im part of the city with the dream factory but no im not part of it and i dont really belong to german film either. I actually belong to something more regional to the variant films from the baroque and the world weary. And thats why i sometimes say that apart from me. The 2nd would have been the only person able to make this car all go. Its going to do more who couldnt. Fitzcarraldo is the story of an eccentric adventurer aiming to build an opera house in the amazon rain forest. Fitzcarraldo was a visionary with a mission. Yes but the fact that something was. Done and. Someone who is prepared to defy gravity to realize his lifes dream pushing boundaries is a constant theme and hair talks work. Hes indian if youve been in extreme environments extreme situations what drives you to the state to seek out these extremes. Makes you dont actually see context. Rather i consider what i do to be normal. People are always saying shooting in the amazon rain forest is so extreme. But look its just a forest green. This is more involved. Katsav return to the jungle again for the vietnam war drama rescue dawn. That was a big american production but headstrong is also a nonconformist in hollywood for. The very end with the will of is out. There. And a passion for unhinged characters. At their pockets. Yes. Youve called bad lieutenant of a very in film theres so much so wild and baroque. Wilder than the wildest drinkers in october fest it really goes to extremes to go and. Go back to the bridge. Surely guess what fool soul still dancing. See how you never went to film school thank goodness see how you dont think much of them schools why. The dissidents. I think theyre completely misconceived. And basically poor film students are cooped up there for way too long. For 3 or 4 years. In 3 or 4 years they could shoot 3 features instead of sitting around there learning film theory or other such nonsense. They can learn everything they need to know in a week so Everything Else is technical. Could be left to the technicians. Here you can learn about filmmaking from veron or hertz online. Storyboard. Instrumentals to cowards. But theres more. I found at the road film school. It was designed to be the exact opposite of everything youd normally learn in film school. There are only 2 things i tell people there really learn. The 1st time out or pick a safety lock using a surgical instrument. And 2nd how to fake a filming permit and not get caught. In. Reasonably ive switched to doing more workshops. Are just as something in the amazon rain forest in peru. And in the 1st minute of the 1st meeting i said the topic of your show. The framework is delirium in the jungle. See what you can come up with and deliver the results in 9 days time and some great films came out of it. Again or the wrath of god was also shot in the south american jungle its the tale of a 16th century spanish conquistador searching for. This feverish drama tackles imperialism greed and megalomania shot in documentary style it follows a good honest historical Suicide Mission thanks. In the end klaus kinski goes mad in a scene that wrote film history that. Ott. Well it was. A good day and later fitzcarraldo r. T. Made headlines during shooting largely due to the unpredictable lead actor klaus kinski he made 5 films with parents on who works through their productive love hate relationship in a documentary. They dont much about the couple going to friends. With and. It was best it was done and mom how do you want to getting tackled by such a document but then because of that you. Know. I was not oh ok so i 1st i thought if you dont want to join gigs the Sports Committee and im interested in can skip a modern thing for me since i was starting to think that these in the 2nd night and got this feeling. In the last didnt get lost in your star theyre still actors as extreme as klaus kinski was. He intended instance extreme i dont consider him extreme. He was kinski your. And in a certain sense he was a singular figure but he wasnt the best actor i worked with. The deepest and best one was bruno s who played the title roles in costume house. Ive worked with the worlds best with christian bale. Nicolas cage Nicole Nicole kidman. Tom cruise it is then no one. Not any one of them. Ever came close to porno as is depth than charisma. Or his ability to convey isolation and parady. To write this blog that was likely due to his real life faith musicianship practically 23 years from his childhood onwards he kept getting put away in correctional institutions and later in jail and then other places where he didnt belong. In the skittish scene i mean my. View in this didnt start with that little subtly of big fish in the cyclist was on the side i didnt think. Just listening to stuff i could click just least. Listen zina. The fairly good. There are others who have similar biographies but who dont have the depth and presence onscreen employ no as did. Pales in comparison. As does nicholas cage nicolas cage and tom cruise 2 top. Democrats with tom cruise on the Action Thriller jack reacher but this time hats oxted in front of the camera playing an evil gang leader. Spend my 1st winter. Coat holding but. Each case for the frostbite could turn into a game dream. Be how was it how did you manage to be that evil. Or was it was ever this totally effortless work says i didnt have to do a screen test and i knew that i could do it and he was still coming to us i earn good money for being terrifying on screen if you want to see. The lines on people. And so many other speak not. That i had sought has his own unique perspective on the world and people his documentaries also focus on eccentric and obsessive types like fanatical Animal Rights activist Timothy Treadwell. Im here with one of my favorite pairs express the chocolate iris chocolate hes been with me for the grizzly man spent his summers in alaska and lost all sense of distance between himself and the bears the most out. Of these animals are. Now that in the end he was himself killed by a bear. My mind. During after treadwells death in 2003 hertz og followed his trail right to the bitter end. Escaped and. Taught for timothy traitor and there is an audio recording of the death of Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend. Libby both of them are eaten by a bear eaten alive piece by piece what if they and the distributors and producers absolutely wanted this recording to be in the film and so i said ok ill listen to it. And i listened to it and it was so incredibly horrifying that i said only over my dead body will this make it into the film he pumped a scene in film turned into. 2 must never listen to this i never heard her ever go into. This including you should not keep it you should destroy it you know if anything she can see it since ethical boundary individually toward because the dignity and the privacy surrounding an individuals death must not be violated. Period period perfect. Yet hertz didnt shy away from interviewing condemned prisoners awaiting execution for its many series on death row. As a german coming from a different historical background and being a guest in the United States i respectfully disagree with the practice of Capital Punishment and help me move forward ive watched several episodes of your series on death row what boundaries were you confronted with there. When c. Its mentioned and told us when you talk with and film people on death row with people who know that theyre going to be executed in 8 days and that theres no escaping that. Then of course there are certain boundaries there. Respect respect dignity. Due to respect the condemned persons human dignity. Same spar and this is one of them. In order to film a death row inmate you have to be invited by him in writing. I was behind the camera you only ever hear my voice and behind the camera i wore a formal suit in time which i almost never do where it was a sign i respect you respect. They were always very open with you. From the very 1st moment. And thats a question of how you work as a director. You can only do that if you know the heart of mental heart and if you can look deep into their souls then it works. Its looking at your films the boundaries between documentary and feature film are really fluid. Do you still differentiate between them oh sure theres a big difference which i also recognize. But i dont worry about it for me theyre all films as film them as. You once said facts do not constitute truth per se. In this age of the internet and fake news whats the truth beyond the facts that you seek. If you have the facts can be misleading the truth is created or certain layers deeper layers are created through stylization through invention through imagination. The supposedly realistic picture often seen in documentaries is a misconception. Which is why i say i invent things too because they serve the truth better than the found. A sting fuck. Back in south america again in the impenetrable tropical rain forest of guyana against the spectacular backdrop of chi to a falls a mythical location for the indigenous population. This is where hats on made the White Diamond a documentary about dreams and the limitations of technology. The dream of flying a floating above the earth here to hertz og dared to experiment. Case we had the music 1st. So in the rain forest the camera man asked me how are you going to do it with the rhythm in the shooting center on my given headphones and said listen. This is how well do it then to be understood immediately. Else reisa goes music evokes the beauty of nature and its vulnerability. And the scene im to type nearly all there were one and a half 1000000 swifts which came out of the sky in a huge swarm and flew in circular movements into their nests behind a huge waterfall. And it was overwhelming. And the music is equally overwhelming. This one sorry these who 1st raised who are the singers were sardinians who almost all have prehistoric voices. And they started singing with far too much energy and the meter was far too clear so i stood up and made flying movements for them. And they understood. And suddenly the movement became that of an eagle gliding from sri up. In hats ogs films music itself is often a performer such as in the show vacate where else dreiser goes music brings the prehistoric paintings to life. In 2019 the vendor had sought Foundation Awarded a prize to reisa he was praised for creating spaces with his music that were larger than what could be seen on the screen. That is so im sick you do not miss your new museum extraordinary visionary. 2 and dazed in the log he admitted hes able to transform an entire world with music and to transform a world of images and suddenly the combination of music and images gives rise to something new and different that the audience can perceive and experience in a different way. Than i have towards relationship with music is a story of its own. He has also staged many operas going back to wagner again and again his 1st time was knowing playing at the by a white festival in 1907. To leave a film chorley many of your colleagues vendors last frontier were also supposed to direct and buy rights but they shied away from doing it whats so difficult about staging wagner is that he can help operates according to different rules. From directors cant expect to use the same criteria and the same working methods as they do in the cinema that was always clear and i told the singers and the others that we had to forget that i were controlling i said that we had a task and that there would only be an opera when the whole world transformed into music and you can see built in music from. So its unfair back to film youve been in some very extreme places in the mountains in the amazon underwater in the desert on the ice caps is there anything else that youre still seeking or that youd like to explore more. Id like to go to the space station or to the moon. Or id like to make a short visit to mars if that ever becomes possible mobs in this and. Or and this is the various during your home even though you havent lived here for 20 years or you leave and soon many of my Cultural Roots are here right my 1st language was a very and i miss it actually and when im travelling around the world i miss the fact that i never hear bavarian dialect being spoken. Ish understand it isnt that of it its a taco mist conscienceless and. Disco tits has inched its own turn to it it. Has sunk to miss the tumbling of the earth apocalyptic imagery more than 50 years after launching his career cats are still seeks souls games on the edges of the planet. He said i am declines to burst forth if you can this country are doing here. With my love you have been winning prizes for your Lifetime Achievement for 10 years now this time its from the european film academy. How does that feel for the. Snakes their money if you distance us protest well to begin with i think its a protest. And of course its a little strange because im still in the middle of my work. And now my output is higher than it was 30 or 40 years ago and i think well feel secure last year i made 3 films but i. Know others need 6 to 8 years to do that yog the day before yesterday i was still shooting in norway on a new film and in less than a week ill be in mexico to continue it. Isnt so much to get this prize 10 years after i stopped making films and didnt have to be rolled onto the stage in a wheelchair if you wanted to add it that i helped thank you instead it was leisure. Its like a creature from another planet its revolutionary not by a pure. And so its also a technological marvel of the cyclone d. S. And unbecoming goddess its still reviewed by countless fans from all over the world. And float away. 30 minutes on the. Check in takes this special trip. To d. C. Show is not just the city trip im also a journey for jewish history the fire warms and minds are considered the cream of the european judaism. Jewish life has shaped the 3 cities for more than 900 years and i want to know what remains of it. Chickie and. 90 minutes on d w. O o. O. O were all set. To go beyond the obvious. That were live. As we take on the world. Were all about is the stories that matter to you about something behind me my goodness you know what ever it takes to keep it all running. The owner of the. Exchange was nothing w. Made for mines. This is a 15 year old girl. Being raped. His teacher is beating a boy for talking plus the rest of the sports. Heroes told her as being hit by his mother breaking a collapse. Just because you can see violence against children doesnt mean it doesnt make them visible visible. Violence against children. This is g. W. 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