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The first film is about Walter Steiner, a Swiss woodcarver and world class ski jumper. The second film 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 Gu...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: New Yorker Video (Firm), New Yorker Films, Süddeutscher Rundfunk, Popol Vuh (Musical group)
Other Authors: Herzog, Werner, 1942-, Schmidt-Reitwein, Jörg, 1939-, Mauch, Thomas, 1937-, Cronin, Paul
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
German
Published: [New York] : New Yorker Video, [2005]
Subjects:
Steiner, Walter.
Ski jumping > Switzerland.
Auctions > Pennsylvania > New Holland.
Auctioneers > Language.
Skiers > Switzerland.
Wood-carvers > Switzerland.
Soufrière (Guadeloupe) > Eruption, 1976.
Short films.
Foreign films.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Biographical films.
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Summary:The first film is about Walter Steiner, a Swiss woodcarver and world class ski jumper. The second film 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.
Item Description:Title from DVD menu screen.
Booklet with excerpts from Paul Cronin's interviews with the director in Herzog on Herzog inserted in container.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD.
Production Credits:Camera, Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein ... [et al.] (1st film), Thomas Mauch, Francisco Joan, and Ed Lachmann (2nd film), Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein and Ed Lachmann (3rd film) ; editing, Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus ; music, Popol Vuh (1st film).
ISBN:1567303897
9781567303896