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The Wild Blue Yonder

Film still from THE WILD BLUE YONDER: An underwater landscape in dark blue and turquoise. In the background you can see two people diving.

Mon 06.02.
20:00

  • Director

    Werner Herzog

  • Germany, F, UK / 2005
    80 min. / 35 mm / Original version

  • Original language

    English

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender

The most unusual of all science fiction films. No special effects, but rather found footage, newly arranged. Brad Dourif steps in front of the camera as an alien, a refugee from a dying planet in the Andromeda galaxy. The plan to colonize the Earth having failed, the aliens now work in secret, including for the CIA. Full of hidden comedy, this intricate story turns amateur footage of the astronauts of the Space Shuttle Atlantis into an account of an Earth expedition to the planet Wild Blue Yonder in the neighboring galaxy. Underwater footage shot by Henry Kaiser in the Antarctic stands in for this entirely flooded planet. A lesson on fantasy.  

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media