FATA MORGANA
Year:
1971
Genre:
Artists' Moving Image
Directed by Werner Herzog
Featuring Wolfgang von Ungern-sternberg / James William Gledhill / Eugen des Montagnes
Featuring Wolfgang von Ungern-sternberg / James William Gledhill / Eugen des Montagnes
Shot largely in the Sahara, the film is in three parts: 'The Creation', over which Lotte Eisner reads from an account of Genesis by the Quiche Indians of the sixteenth century; 'The Paradise', with Herzog's own humorous, surreal text; and 'The Golden Age'.
Cast & credits
Cast
- [on-screen participant] Wolfgang von Ungern-sternberg
- [on-screen participant] James William Gledhill
- [on-screen participant] Eugen des Montagnes
Credits
Direction
- A film by Werner Herzog
Production
- Production Company Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
- [Producer] Werner Herzog
- [Assistant Producer] Joschi Arpa
- [Unit Production Manager] Walter Saxer
- Collaborator Gunther Freyse
- Collaborator Hans Dieter-sauer
- Collaborator Wolfgang Bächler
- Collaborator Manfred Eigendorf
- Collaborator [Narrator] Lotte Eisner
- Collaborator Günther W. Welpert
Writing
- [Screenplay] Werner Herzog
Photography
- Director of Photography Jörg Schmidt-reitwein
Editing
- Editor Beate Mainka-jellinghaus
Music
- [Music Extracts] George Frederic Handel
- [Music Extracts] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- [Music Extracts] Blind Faith
- [Music Extracts] François Couperin
- [Music Extracts] Leonard Cohen
- [Music Extracts] The Third Ear Band
Sound
- [Sound] Werner Herzog