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Synopsis: Salt and Fire is about a mysterious hostage-taking where the leader of a small scientific delegation is deliberately stranded with two blind boys in an area of gigantic salt flats. Shot in Bolivia, the film stars Michael Shannon, Veronica Ferres and Gael García Bernal and was written and directed by Werner Herzog.
Genre: Thriller
Director(s): Werner Herzog
Production: Xlrator Media
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.1
Metacritic:
44
Rotten Tomatoes:
31%
Year:
2016
98 min
Website
219 Views


Bon voyage.

Please, come aboard.

I'm kind of hungry.

My apologies.

I ate half.

Thank you.

"For one, too much.

For all, too little."

Sounds familiar.

Who said that?

Alexander the great.

One day his army

was perishing from thirst...

...and a foot soldier came by

with a helmet

filled with water

he had collected drop by drop

for weeks.

He gave it to Alexander,

who spilled it on the floor.

And he had said that.

He said, "for one, too much.

For all, too little."

It's not going to be easy

out there.

As long as I have my equipment

everything will be fine.

As long as we have some

pasta al dente

and some white truffles...

...and a buxom wench

serving wine.

And some vineyards

in the mountains...

...and the lusty cheers

of the vintners...

Cavani, you are a poet.

...everything will be fine.

Please come out.

What is this?

Who are these men?

I am not going to get out here.

Where-where is the minister?

Please. Please step out.

Ay. No, no, no.

No, no, no, no,

no, no no.

What is this?

You are under our protection.

We have a security problem.

Who are you?

- I know who I am.

- Who sent you?

I'm not gonna tell you.

I am professor sommerfeld

and leader of this delegation.

We are under the protection

of the government.

Yes, yes. And?

And we are under the protection

of the united nations.

I know, I know, I know.

Come outside, please.

We have cars waiting for you.

Hey, and our luggage?

Hey... don't touch me.

I'm not going.

I'll stay here!

I'm not going with you!

Don't touch me!

You are my prisoners!

All of you are my prisoners!

Hold this motherf***er!

Ah! Dr. meier!

Ah! Ay, ay, ay, ay.

Okay, okay.

Okay, okay, okay.

Okay, okay, okay, okay.

- Vamos!

- Ay!

No!

Dr. meier, don't fight.

They'll hurt you.

Stop fighting back!

We give up!

Stop!

Ah!

Meier? Meier?

Vamos, vamos!

Get him away.

Come on.

Get this motherf***er away.

Don't touch me.

So...

This was all a plan

from the beginning?

In a way, yes.

Why have you abducted us?

What's your plan now?

Everything will fall

into place.

It depends on you.

There is no question

that our embassy

has been alerted

to our disappearance.

They are already

in crisis mode.

But it is irrelevant,

because there will be

no negotiations.

And the delegation

who was supposed to meet us

upon arrival?

Have you taken them, too?

No. They were easily bribed.

I take no pride in this.

I don't approve of pay-offs

to anyone.

Do me one favor!

Do not try to come

to the rescue...

...of a tired world.

I'd like to know your name.

As long as I wear this mask

i have no name.

But I know the face

of this gentleman.

Krauss, why don't you

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Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German screenwriter, film director, author, actor, and opera director. Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Schröter, and Wim Wenders. Herzog's films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature.French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. more…

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