Encounters at the End of the World
Image Entertainment (2007)
Documentary
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  7.8
1 hr 39 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   G
Ryan Andrew Evans Himself - Production Cook
Werner Herzog Narrator
David Ainley Marine Ecologist
Samuel S. Bowser Cell Biologist
Regina Eisert Physiologist
Kevin Emery McMurdo Station Survival School Instructor
Ashrita Furman Multiple World Record Holder
Peter Gorham Physicist - University of Hawaii
William Jirsa McMurdo Station Linguist - Computer Expert
Karen Joyce Computer Expert
Director
Werner Herzog
Producer David S. Harding
Andrea Meditch
Phil Fairclough
Dave Harding
Writer Werner Herzog


Just about anywhere Werner Herzog goes becomes an interesting place, in part because the director shapes it with his distinctively sardonic eye. In Encounters at the End of the World, the 'Zog heads off to Antarctica, finding there a population of unusual people, hallucinatory underwater life, and penguins. He doesn't appear on camera, but the unmistakably Teutonic Herzog voice is very much with us all the time, a baleful tour guide for this blank destination. In the human outposts of Antarctica, Herzog finds the kind of people you might expect would gravitate to the edge of existence--the curious, the oddball, the wanderers who've run out of other places to explore. He finds some deadpan hilarity, especially in filming a communication drill involving people practicing blizzard conditions (they wear buckets over their heads while roped together). The underwater photography (a realm previously explored in Herzog's The Wild Blue Yonder) is by Henry Kaiser, and it meshes perfectly with the director's interest in alien eye-scapes. And when Herzog finally does find penguins, his imagination goes to the idea that some penguins go insane, scurrying off into their own suicidal directions. This isn't as arresting a film as Grizzly Man, but it is an entertaining travelogue spiked with quirky observations. --Robert Horton
Edition Details
Distributor Image Entertainment
Release Date 11/18/2008
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio 1.78:1
Subtitles Spanish
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 2

Features
Disc 01 Audio Commentary With Director Werner Herzog, Producer Henry Kaiser And Cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger
Under The Ice, Over The Ice
Dive Locker Interview: Werner Herzog Talks With Rob Robbins And Henry Kaiser, South Pole Exorcism And Seals &Men
Jonathan Demme Interviews Werner Herzog
Theatrical Trailer