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Overview

User Rating:
7.8/10   3,456 votes
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Director:
Werner Herzog
Writer:
Werner Herzog (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
17 October 2008 (Spain) more
Genre:
Documentary more
Plot:
Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to capture its landscape's rarely seen beauty on film. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 nominations more
NewsDesk:
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Not your average science documentary more (38 total)

Cast

 
David Ainley ... Marine Ecologist
Samuel S. Bowser ... Cell Biologist
Regina Eisert ... Physiologist
Kevin Emery ... McMurdo Station Survival School Instructor
Ryan Andrew Evans ... McMurdo Station Cook
Ashrita Furman ... Multiple World Record Holder
Peter Gorham ... Physicist - University of Hawaii

Werner Herzog ... Narrator
William Jirsa ... McMurdo Station Linguist - Computer Expert
Karen Joyce ... Computer Expert
Doug MacAyeal ... McMurdo Station Glaciologist (as Douglas MacAyeal)
William McIntosh ... Volcanologist - Geochronologist
Olav T. Oftedal ... Nutritional Ecologist
Clive Oppenheimer ... Volcanologist
David R. Pacheco Jr. ... McMurdo Journeyman Plumber
Stefan Pashov ... McMurdo Station Forklift Driver
Jan Pawlowski ... Zoologist
Scott Rowland ... McMurdo Station Transportation Dept
Libor Zicha ... McMurdo Station Utility Mechanic
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Directed by
Werner Herzog 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Werner Herzog  written by

Produced by
Phil Fairclough .... executive producer
Dave Harding .... executive producer (as David S. Harding)
Julian Hobbs .... executive producer
Henry Kaiser .... producer
Andrea Meditch .... executive producer
Erik Nelson .... executive producer
 
Original Music by
Henry Kaiser 
David Lindley 
 
Cinematography by
Peter Zeitlinger 
 
Film Editing by
Joe Bini 
 
Production Management
Jessica DeJong .... production manager
 
Sound Department
Werner Herzog .... sound
 
Visual Effects by
Christopher Dusendschon .... digital imaging supervisor: iO FILM
 
Editorial Department
Danica Barnes .... on-line editor
Bartholomew Burcham .... assistant editor
Herrianne Cayabyab .... assistant on-line editor
Ryan Delk .... first assistant editor
Brian Hutchings .... colorist: Alpha Dogs, Inc.
 
Music Department
Stephen Hart .... score mixer
Stephen Hart .... score recording engineer
 
Other crew
Ryan Andrew Evans .... production assistant
 
Thanks
Lloyd Austin .... thanks
Samuel S. Bowser .... thanks (as Samuel Bowser)
Steve Clabuesch .... thanks
Art Devries .... thanks
Roger Ebert .... dedicatee
Guy Guthridge .... thanks
Elaine Hood .... thanks
Philip Kyle .... thanks
Rob Robbins .... thanks
Kim Stanley Robinson .... thanks
Kim Silverman .... thanks
 

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Additional Details

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Runtime:
99 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
USA:G | Canada:G (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario/Québec) | Netherlands:6 | Singapore:G | Australia:G
Filming Locations:
Antarctica
Company:
Discovery Films more

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Quotes:
Narrator: The National Science Foundation invited me even though I made it clear I would not be making another movie about penguins. more
Movie Connections:
References La marche de l'empereur (2005) more
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21 out of 30 people found the following comment useful.
Not your average science documentary, 31 July 2008
7/10
Author: LaFeeChartreuse from Toronto

Encounters at the End of the World is a quirky and interesting film, definitely a departure from your average dry science documentary or eye-candy nature film, though it has elements of both.

It focuses predominantly on the odd collection of people drawn to live in an Antarctic research station, and to a slightly lesser degree on the oddness of the region itself, and the bizarre bits of scientific trivia that can be found there. Then there the bonus meanderings about the ultimate doom of humanity and whether we originally emerged from the sea onto land to escape the "horror" of marine ecosystems.

Many of its parts are fascinating, but for me, it didn't quite come together as a whole. It drifted in a lot of different directions, but seemed overall to be lacking in focus a bit. There were also a couple of elements that disturbed me a little - one was the inconsistency of talking about how humanity is destroying itself one moment, and then bashing "tree huggers and whale huggers" the next. I guess it's OK to notice that we're damaging the world, but not to try and do something about it? The other was that in some cases he seemed to be going out of his way to depict the people he interviewed in embarrassing ways, with things like leaving the camera lingering on them after the interview appeared to be finished, as they stood nervously, apparently trying to figure out if it was over or not.

But on the whole I would recommend it -- the flaws are offset by some impressive visuals (especially the underwater footage), dry humour, interesting ideas to ponder, and a really great soundtrack by Henry Kaiser and David Lindley, which work very well with the oddness of the content.

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