In 2009, Werner Herzog directed a film based on a macabre true story: Brad, completely out of his mind after experiencing a series of hallucinations and hearing voices in his head near a stream where he was supposed to go rafting, decides to give it up and tells his friends he is now calling himself Farouk and converting to Islam on the spot. Back home, he raises and chats with two flamingos, not before fatally striking his mother with a sabre (which was meant for a theatrical performance of "Electra" by Sophocles) given to him by his uncle Ted, an ostrich farmer...

The real event happened 30 years earlier: Mark Yavorsky, a basketball and acting prospect, was 34 years old when he killed his mother with a sabre. He was subsequently declared insane. Herzog met him in the late 1990s, in the camper where he lived, and stated that the man was clearly a dangerous psychopath and did not want to meet him again. Yavorsky died in 2003.

The producer of the film was David Lynch.

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