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Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (Land of Silence and Darkness)
GERMANY · 1971

Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit (Land of Silence and Darkness)

Werner Herzog
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I also think Herzog, who is a documentary director I admire greatly, in particular his early work like Fata Morgana, Land of Silence and Darkness, and The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, has a way of approaching subjects in his documentaries that is very much about entering a dream space and a mythic space. His non-fiction is poetry in the guise of non-fiction. It’s always an exploration of the unconscious, of dreams, of myths. And that resonates deeply with what I try to do, especially in
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