Encounters at the end of the world

Filmmaker Werner Herzog examines life in Antarctica, focusing especially on the stories of the "professional dreamers", the humans who work, play and struggle to survive in a harsh landscape of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty.

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"Rencontres au bout du monde"
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"Filmmaker Werner Herzog examines life in Antarctica, focusing especially on the stories of the "professional dreamers", the humans who work, play and struggle to survive in a harsh landscape of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty."@en
"This film, like many from director Werner Herzog, is a poem of oddness and beauty. Investigating the lives of the "professional dreamers" who conduct research at the bottom of the world in Antarctica, he finds a happily cynical lot, who regard climate change and the potential extinction of Homo sapiens in rather a different light than most people. They study penguins, seals, volcanoes, miniscule underwater creatures, and the shifting ice patterns. In this harsh yet beautiful place, where compasses are useless, and the climate is negative 70 degrees Fahrenheit, Herzog finds the scenery splendid, and McMurdo Station research center repellent. For viewers who have wondered why anyone would go to Antarctica, Herzog's film provides some interesting answers, and many scenes capturing the natural beauty of the ice continent."@en
"Le réalisateur allemand Werner Herzog se rend en Antarctique pour rencontrer des chercheurs et scientifiques aguerris, mais également divers aventuriers qui ont décidé de refaire leur vie sur ce continent glacé, isolé du reste du monde. Il s'arrête d'abord à la base McMurdo où il fait la connaissance de quelques originaux aux horizons divers. Puis il s'enfonce sur le continent afin de se familiariser avec les recherches sur les icebergs qui dérivent vers le Nord, sur les phoques qui produisent des sons extraordinaires sous la glace, sur les organismes unicellulaires à l'origine de la vie sur Terre et sur le volcan Erebus, toujours en activité. Herzog termine son périple au Pôle Sud où il s'interroge sur l'avenir de l'humanité."
"In Antarctica, 1000 men and women live together under unbelievably close quarters, risking their lives and sanity in search of cutting-edge science. Now, for the first time, an outsider has been admitted. Filmmaker Werner Herzog, accompanied only by his camera-man, travelled to Antarctica, with rare access to the raw beauty and raw humanity of the ultimate 'down under'."
"Filmmaker Werner Herzog examines life in Antarctica, focusing especially on the stories of the "professional dreamers" who reside there."@en
"Documents the life and work of international researchers in Antarctica."@en
"Documents the life and work of international researchers in Antarctica."
"Herzog ventures into the beautiful polar landscape of Antarctica, discovering the unique and previously unrecorded wildlife living there, and gains rare access to the hidden society of scientists who call this place home."@en
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"An up-close and personal look at one of Antarctica's lesser-known inhabitants: the human. Join Werner Herzog as he shows those amazing individuals who work, play, and struggle to live in some of the world's worst conditions."@en
"An up-close and personal look at one of Antarctica's lesser-known inhabitants: the human. Join Werner Herzog as he shows those amazing individuals who work, play, and struggle to live in some of the world's worst conditions."
"Werner Herzog goes to Antarctica in his Oscar-nominated documentary about a community at the South Pole. Stunning footage of the endless mountains of ice and the seemingly bottomless depths beneath them seem beamed from another planet. But it's not just the stunning vistas that fascinate Herzog, but the people who choose to live out in these extremes. A mixed bag of scientists, handymen and restless souls who have shunned society at large, they include a biologist who studies vicious underwater micro-organisms and is obsessed with 1950s sci-fi, a plumber who believes he's a descendant of Aztec kings and an adventuress who can contort herself and fit into a carry-on bag."
"El cineasta Werner Herzog examina la vida en la Antártida, con especial atención a las historias de los "son̋adores profesionales" que allí residen."
"Herzog profiles the South Pole's unique residents and their strange, harsh environment at the bottom of the world."@en
"Indruk van het leven op de Zuidpool, zowel van de wetenschappers die daar onderzoek doen als de bewoners."