Signs of Life

Lebenszeichen

Herzog’s first feature is an impressive, highly atmospheric account of German soldiers stationed on a Greek island during the Second World War.

  • Director

    Werner Herzog

  • With

    Peter Brohgle, Wolfgang Reichmann, Julio Pinheiro

  • West Germany 1968. 87min

  • Digital

  • English subtitles

Herzog’s highly atmospheric first feature centres on three German soldiers posted, towards the end of WW2, far from military action at a munitions base on the Greek island of Kos. Eventually inertia, boredom and frustration take their toll… The writer-director’s sense of the powerful influence of landscape and his ability to vividly evoke the strangeness of the world are already impressive.