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Dir: Werner Herzog.
Description: Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to meet the men and women who call this icy wilderness home, and share the continent with wildlife including the penguins. Based at the McMurdo research station, the director finds colourful characters everywhere he turns including the driver of the vehicle known as Ivan the Terra Bus, which is able to operate in these harsh conditions, and a researcher who has a seemingly inexhaustible supply of anecdotes about her globe-trotting antics. Diving beneath the frozen surface, Herzog also captures the serene beauty of the creatures which live underwater in sub-zero temperatures, thriving where few dare to venture.
Country: US. 2007. 100mins
White stuff: Werner Herzog’s documentary captures life in the disappearing Antarctic
Addressing a taciturn marine ecologist who has spent 20 lonely years studying penguins, the director of this documentary about Antarctica asks him: “I’ve read about gay penguins. Do you believe that is true?”
The film-maker is none other than Werner Herzog, the German director of more than 40 films, including classics such as The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and Aguirre, Wrath of God. So you would expect some odd questions. The ecologist confesses that he has really never thought about that aspect of penguin life.
Otherwise, this journey to McMurdo Station, the icy headquarters of the National Science Foundation and home to 1,100 people, is not as eccentric as you might expect, though Herzog delights in encountering scientists, researchers and even truck drivers — professional dreamers who have escaped from the normal world to this ugly mining town where the summer has no night.
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The film is beautifully shot both under the ice, where creatures roam in a place that would rival any sci-fi horror, and on it, where possibly gay penguins waddle the unending vistas of the huge Ross Sea together with the humans. Bits of ice as big as Sicily break off. It won’t be too long, Herzog says, before humans follow the mammoth into extinction. You fully expect Herzog to be there when this happens to make a film about it.
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