FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Werner Herzog - Grizzly Man 

If I show weakness, I'm dead"; so the words of Timothy Treadwell, which lie somewhere between true greatness and madness. Treadwell talks about the grizzly bears he lived with in Katmai National Park/Alaska for thirteen summers. " They will take me out, they will decapitate me, they will chop me up into bits and pieces I'm dead." So it happened: They tore his head off, chopped him up into little pieces and he was dead. In better days we experience Treadwell as a guest of the David Letterman Show. Letterman asks him if it is possible that one day the bears will eat him? The audience laughs. Later, the helicopter pilot will report collecting Treadwell's bones. Treadwell would only treat the grizzlies like people in bear costumes. He got what he deserved. The tragedy: The Grizzlies also killed Treadwell's girlfriend. Treadwell was a good-looking mid-forties man who had a hairstyle like a king in the Middle Ages. People found him charming and thirteen summers also the bears... Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog is one of the most unusual nature documentaries ever! Duke Treadwell neither gives Herzog Treadwell the opportunity to justify himself, nor does he sentimentalise the bears. Treadwell tried to get rid of his alcoholism in the wilderness. He saw his task in "protecting" the bears - but did he do them a favor by bringing them together with humans? Treadwell was a strange figure overall, trying to speak with a false Australian accent. He pretended to come from Australia and not New York. Herzog was attracted by the madness of this man - after all madness is THE subject of his work! Treadwell treats bears like humans. He wanted to pretend he lived alone with the bears. Which is not true, because he met Amie Huguenard, his girlfriend, in the wild. We hardly ever see her face on the footage material, but Treadwell's voice screams that Annie should run for her life... Treadwell believed in God and in God alone determining his destiny. Anders Herzog, who comments that there is no harmony in the universe, only chaos and murder. Can we see insights into the history of Gizzly Man? Of course I don't. It's all about finding food. Treadwell and his girlfriend were the only ones ever eaten by bears on the reservation. The "guilty" bear was subsequently shot. You have to imagine: Treadwell, a man who arranged for him and his girlfriend to be slaughtered by Grizzlies. He deserves Werner Herzog's comment!