The White Diamond
In 1992, legendary nature documentary filmmaker Dieter Plage was tragically killed when he fell from the prototype airship made by his friend, the British scientist Dr Graham Dorrington, while attempting to film wildlife in the canopy of the Amazon. Twelve years on, Werner Herzog returns to the Amazon with the likable but mistake-prone Dorrington to make a second attempt and pay homage to Plage by tackling the elusive, mysterious and breathtaking tree-top canopy in the heart of Guyana. The White Diamond is moving, funny, at times revelatory, and is ultimately as uplifting as a balloon ride over the Amazon.
Reviews
“The new Werner Herzog doc is not just his best but one of the most uplifting documentaries ever made.”
Mark Cousins, author The Story of Film
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7:00 PM Tuesday, 22 February
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General DocumentariesAbout The White Diamond
87 minutesDigital Betacam
In English
Print Source
Werner Herzog Productions
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Festivals
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2004Sheffield Documentary Film Festival 2004
About the Director
Werner Herzog
One of the most idiosyncratic filmmakers of the German New Wave and beyond, Werner Herzog was born in 1942 in Munich. With no formal film education, Herzog has produced, written, and directed more than forty films, published more than a dozen books of prose, and has directed as many operas.
Filmography
The White Diamond (2004)Little Dieter Needs to Fly (2004)
Wheel of Time (2003)
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (segment "Ten Thousand Years Older") (2002)
Pilgrimage (2001)
Invincible (2001)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
Bells from the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia (1993)
Lessons of Darkness (1992)
Scream of Stone (1991)
Echoes From a Somber Empire (1990)
Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun (1990)
Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988)
Gauloises, Les (1988)
Slave Coast (1987)
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Huies Predigt (1980)
Woyzeck (1979)
Nosferatu (1979)
La Soufrière (1977)
Stroszek (1977)
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
No One Will Play with Me (1976)
Heart of Glass (1976)
Every Man for Himself and God Against All (1974)
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
Fata Morgana (1971)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Measures Against Fanatics (1969)
Signs of Life (1968)
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967)
Last Words (1967)
Game in the Sand (1964)
Herakles (1962)