The film begins with a brief history of aviation and in particular
the history of the airship. Herzog discusses the rapid rise and fall of the
popularity of airships before and after the Hindenburg
disaster. Herzog first meets Dorrington in his lab in London . He is an excitable and intelligent man
with grand ambitions of soaring above the jungle canopy, capturing its unspoiled
beauty and collecting samples that could be used in the Pharmaceutical
Industry. Dorrington is eccentric but focussed and it is obvious how much the
expedition and test means to him. The tragedy of ten years earlier is only briefly
mentioned and leaves the viewer hanging.
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Tuesday 1 May 2012
The White Diamond
Werner Herzog once again goes back to the South American
Rainforrest, the setting of his feature films Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo and Cobra
Verde. This time Herzog is in Guyana , one of the less known
countries of the continent. A small country, with just 700,000 inhabitants, Guyana shares more in common both historically
and culturally with the Caribbean
Islands than with its giant
neighbours to the south. Herzog is in Guyana to meet Dr Graham Dorrington,
an aeronautical engineer who is in the jungle to test his latest airship. The
story is tinged with sadness though as in a previous test ten years earlier,
Dorrington’s cinematographer Dieter Plage was killed.
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