Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe. Les Blank, 1980.
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Edition screened: Included in BFI The Werner Herzog Collection Blu-ray box set, released 2014. German language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 11 minutes.
Edition screened: Included in BFI The Werner Herzog Collection Blu-ray box set, released 2014. German language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 11 minutes.
Summary: Abuse of a monkey.
Details: We see black-and-white footage of a living monkey tied to a crucifix and paraded as in a Catholic procession. 10:03-10:17, and again 18:52-18:59. The monkey reportedly was physically unharmed during the filming, but is in distress in these scenes.
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is a short film in which Werner Herzog eats his shoe. The two inset crucified monkey scenes are from Herzog’s Even Dwarfs Started Small (1968).