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The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (German: Die große Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner) is a 1974 documentary film by German filmmaker Werner Herzog. It is about Walter Steiner, a celebrated ski jumper of his era who worked as a carpenter for his full-time occupation.
Nov 26, 1976 · A very moving portrait of a simple Swiss woodcarver who becomes the world's best ski jumper. The man's life, his motivation, his fears, his hopes: all beautifully relayed in this early masterpiece by Werner Herzog.
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Feb 25, 2021 · Werner Herzog - The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 1974. POWERED BY WIND. 2.44K subscribers. 1.4K. 64K views 2 years ago.
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Feb 19, 2018 · The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner shows we don’t need soft-focus portraits of athletes to capture the Olympic spirit.
The Great Ecstasy Of Woodcarver Steiner. A study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry. IMDb 7.6 45min 1974. X-Ray NR.
Movie Info. Walter Steiner is a world-class ski jumper -- he won a silver medal in the 1972 Winter Olympics -- who works full-time as a carpenter. Over the course of his career, he manages to ...
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In his characteristically dreamy Young Werther fashion, Werner Herzog generates a lot of bombastic and beautiful documentary footage out of the post-Gulf war oil fires and other forms of devastation in Kuwait, gilds his own high-flown rhetoric by falsely ascribing it to Pascal, and in general treats war as abstractly as CNN, but with classical m...
