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The white diamond [DVD]
Title:
The white diamond [DVD]
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[DVD] / Wellspring ; Genius Entertainment ; produced by Marco Polo Film AG ; co-producers, NDR Naturfilm and NHK ; in association with BBC ; a film by Werner Herzog ; producer, Werner Herzog, Annette Scheurich, Lucki Stipetic ; original storyline, Rudolph Herzog, Annette Scheurich ; written and directed by Werner Herzog.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Wellspring Media, Inc., c2005.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:
9780794205904
General Note:
Originally produced as a German documentary in 2004.

Special features: Werner Herzog Filmography [text feature] ; Trailer gallery (12 min.); Coming attractions [trailers] (7 min.).
Abstract:
Graham Dorrington is an enthusiastic English aeronautical engineer on a mission to revive the airship, that ill-fated aeronautic conveyance otherwise known as the dirigible or zeppelin, to fly over the Amazon canopy. His eagerness is diminished by the memory an incident 10 years earlier, in which photographer Dieter Plage was killed. This film records an expedition to Guyana, where Dorrington and his small crew of researchers, technicians, and porters struggle with the elements, the laws of physics, and one another as they try to get a new vessel off the ground. Mr. Herzog, who has made a specialty of finding obsessives and eccentrics who push themselves to extremes, asks questions, films, and narrates the result.
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Contents:
Opening -- New breed -- Let's go fly -- Dieter Plage -- 9.7 meter diameter -- 7,900 miles of rock -- Stupid stupidities -- Canopy -- Dangerous dream -- Completely free -- Real white diamond -- Closing credits.
Credits:
Camera, Henning Brümmer, Klaus Scheurich ; editor, Joe Bini ; sound, Eric Spitzer ; music, Ernst Reijseger, Eric Spitzer-Marlyn ; based on an idea by Rainer Bergomaz, Marion Pöllmann.
Performer:
Narrator, Werner Herzog ; featuring, Graham Dorrington, Mark Anthony Yhap, Anthony Melville, Michael Wilk, Jan-Peter Meewes, Jason Gibson.
Technical Details:
DVD; 16 x 9 anamorphic presentation.
Language:
In English.
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