The Spectator, November 20th, 2004
Film
On the trail of Herzog
At 8.30 a.m. on a crisp autumn Sunday a group of 20 huddled on King's Cross station's platform nine and three-quarters - empty but for a smattering of camera-toting Japanese Harry Potter enthusiasts ready to embark on a journey inspired by the iconoclastic German film-maker Werner Herzog.
In the harsh midwinter of 1974, Herzog made a gruelling pilgrimage, walking 500 miles from Munich to Paris in a bid to fend off the death of the distinguished film critic and historian Lotte Eisner, who had suffered a stroke. Herzog felt that he and his fellow German film-makers...
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