Weight lifting men who compete to achieve individual bodily perfection through muscle building.
Crew believed to be complete
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"Herakles" is a 1962 short film and the first film by the German director Werner Herzog, then 20 years old. The film relates to six of the twelve labors of Heracles. The film starts with shots of young male bodybuilders working out in a gym, posing on a stage and flexing their muscles. Each of the labors are then announced by on-screen text in the form of a question, followed by related scenes of modern challenges inter-cut with the bodybuilders.
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Ercole
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Hércules
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Heracles
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Геракл
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Ηρακλής
(Greece)
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On page 28 of 'Werner Herzog: A Guide For The Perplexed, Conversations with Paul Cronin', Werner Herzog says of Herakles (1962) "Looking at the film today, I find it rather pointless, though at the time Herakles was an important test for me. It was some kind of an apprenticeship; I felt it would be better to make a film than go to film school."
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Referenced in
The Making of 'Nosferatu' (1979).
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