Of Walking in Ice - Werner Herzog anthropology Carol Christian Poell

Carol Christian Poell

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Of Walking in Ice - Werner Herzog anthropology Carol Christian PoellA poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film makers and intellectuals of our time. In November 1974, when Werner Herzog was told that his mentor Lotte Eisner, the film historian and critic, was dying in Paris, he set off to walk there from Munich, in full faith, believing that she would stay alive if I came on foot. Along the way he recorded what he saw, how he felt, and what he experienced, from the physical