Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the dead of winter; descending into an active volcano; living in the wilderness among grizzly bears - he has always been intrigued by the extremes of human experience.

From his early movies to his later documentaries, he has made a career out of exploring the boundaries of human endurance: what we are capable of in exceptional circumstances and what th...

During the Second World War, the population of Europe experienced and endured a lot of misery; not only the general population but also the soldiers who often had to join the army against their will. This is the diary of a young German soldier who was drafted into the army towards the end of the war. He writes about the terrible things he has seen and experienced. He himself was wounded with a shot in the leg. After his recovery and rehabilitation, he had to serve in the army a second tim...

The correspondence of two men for a decade, when youngsters met each other in the sixties, remained friends up to the age of founding families and now at old age, create an image of them in getting-older-times.

Here are letters for one decade from 2012 to somewhere 2021. It starts with their meeting in 1969, recorded by memory and diary, and then jumps to a continuation of email-stream as presented here, which starts in 2012. It was a time of books, music, politic instabilities, loves, famil...