How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

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How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck
Herzog can be seen in the auctioneer's booth
Directed by	Werner Herzog
Produced by	Werner Herzog
Written by	Werner Herzog
Narrated by	Werner Herzog
Starring	Steve Liptay Ralph Wade Alan Ball Abe Diffenbach
Cinematography	Thomas Mauch
Editing by	Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
Release date(s)	February 14, 1977 (West Germany)
Running time	45 min.
Country	West Germany
Language	English German
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How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck is a 1976 documentary film by German director Werner Herzog, produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion. It is a 44 minute film documenting the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship held in New Holland, Pennsylvania. Herzog has said that he believes auctioneering to be "the last poetry possible, the poetry of capitalism." ^[1]

Herzog describes the auctioneering as an "extreme language ... frightening but quite beautiful at the same time."^[2] Herzog used two of the featured auctioneers as actors in his later film Stroszek.

[edit] References

^ DVD audio commentary for Stroszek
^ Herzog, Werner (2001). Herzog on Herzog. Faber and Faber, 140. ISBN 0-571-20708-1.

[edit] External links

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck at the Internet Movie Database

v • d • e Films directed by Werner Herzog

1960s	Herakles (1962) • Game in the Sand (1964) • The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967) • Last Words (1967) • Signs of Life (1968) • The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969) Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)

1970s	Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970) • Handicapped Future (1971) • Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) • Fata Morgana (1971) • Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) • The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) • The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) • Heart of Glass (1976) • No One Will Play With Me (1976) • How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) • Stroszek (1977) • La Soufrière (1977) • Nosferatu the Vampyre (1978) • Woyzeck (1978)

1980s	Huie's Sermon (1981) • God's Angry Man (1981) • Fitzcarraldo (1982) • Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984) • The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984) • Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) • Portrait Werner Herzog (1986) • Cobra Verde (1987) • The French as seen by... (1988) • Wodaabe - Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)

1990s	Film Lesson 1-4 (1990) • Echoes From a Somber Empire (1990) • Jag Mandir (1991) • Scream of Stone (1991) • Lessons of Darkness (1992) • Bells from the Deep (1993) • The Transformation of the World Into Music (1994) • Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995) • Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) • The Lord and the Laden (1999) • My Best Fiend (1999)

2000s	Wings of Hope (2000) • Invincible (2001) • Pilgrimage (2001) • Ten Minutes Older (2002) • Wheel of Time (2003) • The White Diamond (2004) • Grizzly Man (2005) • The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) • Rescue Dawn (2007) • Encounters at the End of the World (2007) • The Cheese and the Worms (2008)