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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin is a 2019 British documentary film by German director Werner Herzog. It chronicles the life of British travel writer Bruce Chatwin and includes interviews with Chatwin's widow, Elizabeth Chatwin, and biographer Nicholas Shakespeare, as well as detailing Herzog's own friendship and collaboration with the man.
A journey where the viewer can see Werner Herzog's creative and personal vision which was shared with iconic travel writer Bruce Chatwin, the prolific author of 'In Patagonia' and a champion of the nomadic life.
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- Documentary, Biography
- Werner Herzog
- 2020-08-26
Werner Herzog turns the camera on himself and his decades-long friendship with the late travel writer Bruce Chatwin, a kindred spirit whose quest for ecstatic truth carried him to all...
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- Documentary
- Werner Herzog
Feb 16, 2021 · 79. 8.8K views 3 years ago. NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN is now streaming on MUBI US: http://mubi.io/chatwin Werner Herzog’s touching documentary portrait of the late, globetrotting...
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- MUBI
Herzog’s deeply personal portrait of Chatwin, illustrated with archival discoveries, film clips, and a mound of “brontosaurus skin,” encompasses their shared interest in aboriginal cultures,...
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- 54.5K
- Music Box Films
Aug 25, 2020 · “Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin” is Herzog’s long-gestating interrogation into the work of Chatwin, who died in 1989. It’s also a tribute to a clearly much-missed friend.
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Aug 25, 2020 · As a tribute to his friend, “Nomad” finds Herzog journeying to a number of the places that he and Chatwin encountered in the past in order to look at them anew and reflect on how the nomadic spirit that drove Chatwin and continues to drive him has largely become a thing of the past.
