Ferocious Reality: Documentary According to Werner Herzog Volume 27

by Eric Ames

Over the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), has directed almost sixty films, roughly half of which are documentaries. And yet, in a statement delivered during a public appearance in 1999, the filmmaker declared: "There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816677646
• ISBN13: 9780816677641
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"