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Not only Herzog’s greatest short documentary, but I think his best, most essential film. So many of the classic ingredients are here: hypnotic long takes, a terrific soundtrack by Popol Vuh, Herzog’s own quirky on-screen presence. The story of world champion ski-flier Walter Steiner (ski-flying as distinct from ski-jumping, which places less emphasis on distance), an athlete so gifted at his sport that its regulating committees seem bent on pushing him to break distance records even at the risk of his life, Herzog presents a man as much cursed as blessed by his own talents. Still early in his career, Herzog seems less self-parodying than he sometimes comes across in later films. We also get a bit of his Burden of Dreams-era megalomania when his first reaction upon hearing Steiner has crashed at the bottom o

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