How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck

Infobox Film
name = How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck


caption = Herzog can be seen in the auctioneer's booth
director = Werner Herzog
producer = Werner Herzog
writer = Werner Herzog
narrator = Werner Herzog
starring = Steve Liptay Ralph Wade Alan Ball Abe Diffenbach
music =
cinematography = Thomas Mauch
editing = Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
distributor =
released = February 14, 1977 (West Germany)
runtime = 45 min.
country = FRG
language = English German
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:17649
imdb_id = 0083946

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." [DVD audio commentary for "Stroszek"]

Herzog describes the auctioneering as an "extreme language ... frightening but quite beautiful at the same time."cite book
last = Herzog
first = Werner
title = Herzog on Herzog
publisher = Faber and Faber
date = 2001
pages = 140
isbn = 0-571-20708-1
] Herzog used two of the featured auctioneers as actors in his later film "Stroszek".

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