Ode to the Dawn of Man

Ode to the Dawn of Man

Ode auf den morgen der menschheit

Documentary on the making of the music to "Cave of Forgotten Dreams". It was recorded in July 2010 at Protestant Church of Haarlem in The Netherlands with a composer and a musician Ernst Reijseger and a music producer Stefan Winter.

About director:

Werner Herzog (b. 1942 in Munich, Germany) raised in the remote Bavarian village of Sachrang. He worked as a welder to fund his first film at the age nineteen, and has since directed over fifty features. His films have won numerous awards, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser" (1974) and best director at the Cannes Film Festival for "Fitzcarraldo" (1982).

Selected filmography: "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972, "Kino pavasaris"), "Stroszek" (1977, "Kino pavasaris"), "Nosferatu the Vampyre" (1979, "Kino pavasaris"), "Woyzeck" (1979, "Kino pavasaris"), "Grizzly Man" (2005, doc, "Kino pavasaris"), "My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done" (2009), "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" (2010, doc, "Kino pavasaris"), "Into the Abyss" (2011, doc, "Kino pavasaris"), "Ode to the Dawn of Man" (2011, short doc, "Kino pavasaris").