Into the Inferno (2016)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 104 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / Germany / Canada
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Stars: Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer and Tim D. White
IMDb score:
7,2 (10.803)
Releasedate: 7 September 2016
Into the Inferno plot
"What we worship can destroy us"
Director Werner Herzog traveled the world exploring the impact of volcanoes on geology, society and our imagination. He is assisted by volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer. They visit the most special volcanoes in Indonesia, Ethiopia, Iceland and North Korea. On this dangerous mission, they meet people who voluntarily live in the shadows of these potentially deadly and unpredictable neighbors and they talk to scientists.
Actors and actresses
Narrator (voice)
Self - Volcanologist
Self - Chief, Endu Village
Self - Volcanologist (archive footage)
Self - Volcanologist (archive footage)
Self - Volcanologist
Self - Paleoanthropologist
Self - Fossil Hunter
Self - Archaeologist
Self - Chief, Lamakara Village
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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While filming 'Encounters at the End of the World', Werner Herzog encountered a number of volcanologists who risked their lives trying to unlock the deepest secrets of the most majestic volcanoes. In this documentary he speaks again with some of them and visits some of the most active volcanoes on our planet. There are many beautiful images (regularly also in archives), but Herzog confesses early on in this documentary that he is not so much concerned with the volcanoes, but with the fascination that humans have had for thousands of years for this primal force. For example, he speaks extensively with a tribal leader in Vanuatu about their own mythology surrounding the volcano and he spends a lot of time on the role that Paektusan, a huge volcano on the border between China and North Korea, has on the ideology and (thus) daily life. live in North Korea. In his commentary, Herzog occasionally goes a bit too far in his own amazement and is often repetitive with the use of religious music to reinforce the images of nature. Fortunately, the volcanologists are mostly charismatic people who know how to talk about their own fascination with and the research they do into volcanoes in an entertaining way, which has made this a fascinating document.
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blurp194
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Herzog does volcanoes.
Very similar to the 2020 version on meteorites, because the same Clive Oppenheimer joins in as the scientist on duty, the same dry-cracked commentary of Herzog himself giving the interpretation, and a similar approach - a little science, a little mythical stuff, some misfits and goofballs. But where the meteorite version worked quite well for me, this one doesn't. Actually just not at all. Quite a miss that the eruption of Eyafjallajökull from a few years earlier was not included. Herzog's laziness perhaps. Or perhaps just too little attention, just like the complete miss Salt and Fire from the same year - also a complete failure. Too bad to see these two misses, good to know that Herzog has recovered afterwards.
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