The Wild Blue Yonder

Without our knowledge, we have had visitors from outer space for decades, coming from from a planet submerged in water: The Wild Blue Yonder. Their attempts to create a new community on Earth have thus met with little success. This film is narrated on-screen by one of the visitors. In words and lyrical images, he shows how our attempts to find a new home somewhere in space is doomed to failure. He explains how in the past, when Earth was threatened with extinction, a manned space probe was sent to look for an alternative home in outer space. It did not succeed. Using this postulate and the story of the Galileo probe, Herzog’s film – a sci-fi fable — becomes a metaphor for space.

Germany / France / United Kingdom - 2005 - 1 h 16 mn - HD DV - Colour

Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Camera
Tanja Koop, Henry Kaiser, Klaus Scheurich, Les astronautes de la mission STS-43
Sound
Joe Crabb
Editing
Joe Bini
Music
Ernst Reijseger
With
Brad Dourif, Les astronautes de la mission STS-43

Production
Werner Herzog Film GmbH,
Spiegelgasse 9,
1010 Vienna, Autriche
Tél : +43 1 512 9444
E-mail : office@wernerherzog.com

Co-Production
Tetra Media, West Park Pictures

with the participation of
France 2

Sales
Werner Herzog Film GmbH,
Spiegelgasse 9,
1010 Vienna, Autriche
Tél : +43 1 512 9444
E-mail : worldsales@wernerherzog.com