La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe

Waiting for an inevitable disaster

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Release Date

10/1/1977

Runtime

31 mins

Overview

Werner Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave.

Status

Released

Original Language

German

Budget

$30,000

Revenue

-

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Herzog's hypnotic meditation on fatalism and human stubbornness in the face of natural apocalypse. A strange, philosophically charged portrait of one man's choice to stay as everyone else flees the inevitable.

Mood

ContemplativeDread-soakedMournfulTense

Themes

MortalityIsolationSurvivalNature

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Meditative

Look

Documentary-likeNaturalistic

Structure

Single location

Heads up

Suicide and self-harm

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