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Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

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In the 40 years ago since Venter Herzog has been making films, he's gone from making shorts

to features, from documentaries to fiction films to fiction films adapted from his own

documentaries to films he starred in.

Of course, his films include such major films as Strozik, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Fitzcaraldo,

Little Dieter Needs to Fly, perhaps my favorite of all these films, and of course, the Wrath of God, Fitzcaroldo. Little Dieter needs to fly.

Perhaps my favorite of all these films, and of course, the fiction film remake of that

from a couple of years ago.

His newest film is, not strictly speaking, a remake of Bad Lieutenant.

It's called Bad Lieutenant Protocol in the Orleans starring Nicholas Cage.

First of all, Werner, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you for having me.

It's been quite a career.

And I just, as we start to talk, I realized it was 30 years ago that your remake of Nosferatu came out. In this case, it's more legitimate to speak about a remake because I wanted to connect to the era of the Weimar, the silent films to the grandfather generation of Fritz Lang, Murnau,

Papst and others, because our father generation was an utter failure in a way because almost

all the official culture sided with the barbarism of the Nazi regime.

So for me, it has always been a point of orientation to trace myself back to the grandfathers.

So in this case, it's an homage to Murnau, to Nosferatu.

However, bad lieutenant port of call New Orleans, it has only very, very vague

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