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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.
26 nov 1976 · The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner: Directed by Werner Herzog. With Walter Steiner, Werner Herzog. A study of the psychology of a champion ski-jumper, whose full-time occupation is carpentry.
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- Documentary, Biography, Sport
- Werner Herzog
- 1976-11-26
19 feb 2018 · No one has understood this better than Werner Herzog, who memorialized his own fascination with the sport in the 44-minute documentary The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner.
27 mar 2022 · 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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- Werner Herzog
- Documentary
An early Herzog documentary, and one of his most fascinating and effective, Great Ecstasy showcases the lesser known sport of ski-flying, a bigger, higher, longer, crazier version of ski-jumping.
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- Werner Herzog
13 mar 2002 · In The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Herzog plays the naive, awestruck reporter, humbled by the supremacy of the ski-flier. But Herzog is also an intelligent, intuitive filmmaker. By 1974 ski-flying was reaching its limits, a fact acknowledged by Steiner in the film.
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner. Werner Herzog’s moving portrait of a record-breaking ski jumper. The truly stunning, soaring ski-flights of Walter Steiner, a man who earns his living as a carpenter, are beautifully captured using a 16mm camera running at several times its usual speed.
