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- 2016
- Netflix
- 1 h 44 m
- 2016
- Netflix
- 1 h 44 m
Summary Werner Herzog and volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer travel the globe and visit volcanoes in Indonesia, Ethiopia and even North Korea in an attempt to understand man's relationship with one of nature's most violent wonders. [Netflix]
Directed By: Werner Herzog
Written By: Werner Herzog
- 2016
- Netflix
- 1 h 44 m
- 2016
- Netflix
- 1 h 44 m
Into the Inferno
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7.4
Summary Werner Herzog and volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer travel the globe and visit volcanoes in Indonesia, Ethiopia and even North Korea in an attempt to understand man's relationship with one of nature's most violent wonders. [Netflix]
Directed By: Werner Herzog
Written By: Werner Herzog
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
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6% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
76
94% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
6% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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It’s an exhilarating trip, filled with strange stories, fascinating rituals and ethereally beautiful images of bubbling magma and flowing lava, some of which were captured using drones.
Into the Inferno is a memento mori aimed at the whole human race, and only Herzog could make one this non-pretentious, funny, curious, and respectful at the same time.
Even as Into the Inferno invites us to marvel at our insignificance in the face of Mother Nature’s seething primordial firepit, Herzog, being Herzog, refuses to lose sight of the human element.
If you go into a Herzog documentary hoping for a definitive, deep look at a certain subject, you're bound to come away disappointed. But if you go into them expecting a series of portraits of obsessed people, each painted by one of the most likable obsessives in cinema, you're likely to come away satisfied.
Into the Inferno proves most fascinating when documenting the ways in which primitive peoples invest these angry craters with spirits and gods.
While there are no chapter breaks or anything to formally guide the audience in that way, Into the Inferno feels unusually episodic by Herzog’s typically cohesive standards.
There's something deeply unsettling about the unstoppable, magma-like flow of Werner Herzog's Into the Inferno.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
7.4
82% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 User Ratings
7.4
82% Positive
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
6% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
12% Negative
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Production Company
Matter of Fact Media,
Spring Films,
Werner Herzog Filmproduktion
Release Date Oct 28, 2016
Duration 1 h 44 m
Genres
Tagline What we worship can destroy us
Awards
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 2 Nominations
FOCAL International Awards
• 2 Nominations
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 1 Nomination
