LinksSonntag, Dezember 15, 2013, 22:38 - ISLAND / ICELAND
... who began his career in the ‘70s, tells this story about German director Werner Herzog’s visit to Reykjavík:“Werner Herzog came to Iceland in 1979 - at that point there was no film production in Iceland. At a press conference he was asked whether he believed there would ever be an Icelandic Cinema. He answered that he did not expect there to be. He had just arrived from Peru where he had been shooting ‘Fitzcarraldo.’ There he had seen such pain in the streets of Lima, but there was no pain on the streets of Reykjavík, and he believed pain was necessary for cinema. At that point I stood up and told him: ‘We have pain on the brain, Mr. Herzog.’”