The White Diamond

director: Werner Herzog
script: Anette Scheurich, Rudolph Herzog
DoP: Henning Brümmer, Klaus Scheurich
sound: Eric Spitzer
editor: Joe Bini
music: Ernst Reijseger

Produced by Marco Polo Film AG
in coproduction with NDR, NHK, BBC

awards and festivals
* NYFCC Award Best Non-Fiction Film
* best documentary Kopenhagen Dox 2005
* Sheffield Documentary Film Festival 2004
* Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2004
* Taiwan Int. Documentary Festival 2004
* adelaide filmfestival 2005
* belfast film festival 2005
* San Francisco Int’l film festival 2005
* filmforum New York
* Jerusalem International Filmfestival 2006

press

The New York Times
by J. Hoberman
“Filled with BREATHTAKING IMAGES.
One of the greatest and most original of documentary filmmakers.”

Time Magazin, June 20 2005
by Richard Corliss
“When the airship finally flies, Dorrington says he is “high on helium,” and in a symphony of pristine images and gorgeous choral music, The White Diamond achieves its own ecstasy.”