The great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner ; How much wood would a woodchuck chuck? ; La Soufrière
Title:
The great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner ; How much wood would a woodchuck chuck? ; La Soufrière
JLCTITLE245:
by Werner Herzog.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
[New York?] : New Yorker Films, [2005]
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9781567303896
Abstract:
Three short documentaries from the 1970's by the director Werner Herzog. Die grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Schneider is about Walter Steiner, a Swiss woodcarver and world class ski jumper. How much wood ... is a visit to the annual world championship of livestock auctioneers in the Amish country of Pennsylvania. La Soufrière is about the anticipated eruption of a volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and the man who chooses to stay behind when everyone else evacuates.
Geographic Term:
Added Author:
Added Corporate Author:
Added Title:
Grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Schneider.
Great ecstasy of the woodcarver Steiner.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck.
Soufrière.
Contents:
Die grosse Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Schneider = The great ecstasy of the sculptor Steiner (45 min.) (1975) -- How much wood would a woodchuck chuck-- : beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache (45 min.) (1977) -- La Soufrière : warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe = La Soufrière : waiting for an inevitable catastrophe (30 min.) (1977).
Language:
The first work is in German with optional English subtitles, the second is in English and the third is narrated in English by Herzog.