Habe eben The White Diamond gesehen, den ich aus unerfindlichen Gründen beinah ein Jahr vor mir her geschoben habe. Er ist super! Herzog Fans unbedingt gucken! Es gibt zwar einige Szenen, die ich nicht gelungen fand und andere, in denen Herzog ein bisschen wie ein Klischee von sich selbst wirkt, aber alles in allem eine tolle Doku mit einigen herzogisch-metaphysischen Bildern.

Grizzly Man mochte ich auch, aber ganz fürchterlich fand ich die Szene in der er das Todestape hört. Das war einfach so fehl am Platz.
*Herzog hört das Tape*
*guckt traurig in die Kamera und zur Frau*
"Ju mai not evar hier sis. It is tu terribell. Dieströi it."

Die Szene ging einfach gar nicht!

Btw, aus einem Brief von Roger Ebert an Herzog:

„I remember at the Telluride Film Festival, ten or 12 years ago, when you told me you had a video of your latest documentary. We found a TV set in a hotel room and I saw “Bells from the Deep,” a film in which you wandered through Russia observing strange beliefs.

There were the people who lived near a deep lake, and believed that on its bottom there was a city populated by angels. To see it, they had to wait until winter when the water was crystal clear, and then creep spread-eagled onto the ice. If the ice was too thick, they could not see well enough. Too thin, and they might drown. We heard the ice creaking beneath them as they peered for their vision.

Then we met a monk who looked like Rasputin. You found that there were hundreds of “Rasputins,” some claiming to be Jesus Christ, walking through Russia with their prophecies and warnings. These people, and their intense focus, and the music evoking another world (as your sound tracks always do) held me in their spell, and we talked for some time about the film, and then you said, “But you know, Roger, it is all made up.” I did not understand. “It is not real. I invented it.”


Edit: Danke, Werner Herzog Superstar!