SIGNS OF LIFE d: Werner Herzog

Lebenszeichen / Signs of Life (1968)
Direction: Werner Herzog
Screenplay: Werner Herzog; inspired by Achim von Arnim’s story
Cast: Peter Brogle, Wolfgang Reichmann, Athina Zacharopoulou, Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg, Wolfgang Stumpf, Julio Pinheiro
 

By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
No filmmaker’s career has been more defined and structured by the musical choices he has made than that of Werner Herzog. This claim is evident from his first full-length feature, Lebenszeichen / Signs of Life (1968), which he made when he was twenty-four — three years after having written the screenplay. (He claims he got the idea for it when he was fifteen or sixteen, apparently from a story by German author Ludwig Achim von Arnim [1781-1831].) Though made by a newcomer, Signs of Life is an [...]

by Dan Schneider | February 9, 2007   
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