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Article: AGONIZING `DIETER' IS ULTIMATELY UPLIFTING.(What's Happening)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 17, 1998
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German director Werner Herzog has long been shrouded in a sort of legendary myth and mystery. He's even overcome rumors of meglomaniacal near-insanity on his sets.
And his films capture an elusive thing: the struggle to survive against the madness that swells under an intangible dream and its unsurmountable odds.
``Aguirre'' (1972) followed a group of conquistadors who traveled into the dark heart of Peru in search of El Dorado and chronicled the tragedy that followed. Herzog's finest film, ``The Mystery of Kasper Hauser'' (1974), threw an innocent to the wolves with surprising results.
Herzog made ``Little Dieter Needs to Fly'' in 1997 and ...