Werner Herzog
Paese del silenzio e dell'oscurità (Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit)

To tap into the unattainable: this is what Herzog has always tried to do.

But here he exaggerates.

Here, he plays the intermediary between two worlds: between the world of those who have five senses and the world of those who have only three.

Here, the unattainable truly is.

Between the two worlds, a chasm.

The only way to get where “cinema verité” cannot reach—the Bavarian magician knows this well—is to shoot a documentary as if it were a fiction film.

An unparalleled conjurer, Herzog makes reality more real through artifices (and vice versa).

One can only play along.

Hard, or rather extremely hard, is playing along this time.

He opens a slit, a peephole through which he invites you to spy on an unimaginable world.

To look through it, you should know, is only possible in make-believe.

But it's worth it nonetheless.