Encounters at the End of the World
- 2007
- US
- 99 min
- U
- Directed by: Werner Herzog
- Written by: Werner Herzog
- Cast: Werner Herzog, Scott Rowland, Stefan Pashov
- Website: encountersfilm.com
Extraordinary, Oscar-nominated documentary about the life and landscape around the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station. A highly idiosyncratic take on an already pretty out there subject, Herzog deftly interviews scientists, technicians, plumbers and truck drivers about their experiences, profound, sublime and ridiculous. Never less than astonishing, generally illuminating, more often than not hilarious and occasionally sobering.
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Encounters at the End of the World
16 Apr 2009
(U) 99min At the outset of his extraordinary, Oscar-nominated documentary about the life and landscape around the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, director Werner Herzog announces that this is not a film about fluffy penguins. Sure enough…
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