Screenplays by Herzog Werner 1942-

Author:Herzog, Werner, 1942- [Herzog, Werner, 1942-]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 0934378029
Publisher: New York : Tanam Press
Published: 1980-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Dialogue from:

Land of Silence and Darkness

“From the life of the deaf and blind Fini Straubinger’’

Darkness, Quietude

The Field Path

Fini Straubinger: I see before me a path that leads across an unplowed field, and fugitive clouds fleeing past.

The Ski-Jumper

As a child, when I could still see and hear, I once visited a ski-jumping event; and this image keeps returning to my mind, how these men were hovering in the air. I watched their faces very closely. I wish you could see that too, once.

On the Park Bench

Resi Mittermeier: Could Mrs. Straubinger tell us about the animals again?

Fini: That was such an enormous pleasure for us. First we were led into the room for the crawling animals. There was a roebuck of normal size — they were all normal animals that had been stuffed for the instruction of the blind. There was a very beautiful roebuck, its fur was so beautiful. Beside it lay a stag’s head of a capital buck, a twelvebranched antler. And there was its neck as well, and the gaping mouth. I was awestruck by that huge animal. Then there were — hares, yes! — in leaping and sitting posture, one could touch them all over. Some of us felt creepy because there were also some mice. In the second room there were only the flying animals. First there was a black

woodpecker on a branch, which was interesting. . . then its little brother, the colored woodpecker. I was enraptured! Those long beaks! Then a pheasant with its long feathers. What a pity that we couldn’t see the colors.

Resi: Could Miss Julie tell us about the animals as well?

Fini: They are asking you whether you can talk about the animals.

Julie: I don’t remember much.

Fini: She doesn’t remember much. But, what you do remember.

Julie: I touched some animals that I had never seen before in my life — pheasants, crocodiles, snakes, tigers, lions, and several others. And some which we also have here in Europe — goats, roebucks, hares, foxes, and even a mouse.

On the Plane

Title: Flying for the first time

Photos

Title: Memories

In Fini’s Room

Fini: As a child I was very tempermental. My mother had a hard time with me and tried time and time again to keep me in line. Father died at the age of thirty-three, I wasn’t even six years old. And so it happened that I lived my own life whenever I had

the slightest breath of fresh air. Then it came to pass that I fell down the stairs at the age of nine. That is to say, I somersaulted from the third floor down to the second, and I fell so hard on my back and on the back of my head that a man who was standing nearby thought it was a gunshot. He asked: Did you hurt yourself? No, I said. Please, don’t tell Mommy or else she will spank me. And on all fours I crept up the stairs, for I couldn’t walk any more. Apparently I was very frightened and had received quite a shock.

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