Last Words (film)

Last Words (film)

Infobox Film
name = Last Words


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director = Werner Herzog
producer = Werner Herzog
writer = Werner Herzog
cinematography = Thomas Mauch
editing = Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus
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released = 1968
runtime = 13 min.
country = West Germany
language = Greek
budget =
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imdb_id = 0061905

"Last Words" ( _de. Letzte Worte) is a 1968 short film by Werner Herzog shot in Crete and on the island of Spinalonga. The film was shot in two days during the filming of Herzog's feature "Signs of Life", and edited in one day.cite book
last = Herzog
first = Werner
title = Herzog on Herzog
publisher = Faber and Faber
date = 2001
isbn = 0-571-20708-1
]

The film tells a story of the last man to leave the abandoned island of Spinalonga, which had been used as a leper colony. The man refused to leave, and so was forcibly removed. He now lives in Crete, where he plays the lyre at nights in a bar, and refuses to speak. The film's narrative style is very unconventional, with most characters speaking their lines several times repeatedly in long takes. The man from the island has the most spoken lines of any character, as he repeatedly explains that he refuses to speak, even a single word.

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