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Limonádový Joe aneb Konská opera [Lemonade Joe or The Horse Opera] (Oldřich Lipský, 1964)
Apr
27
Kola Loka
A tough cowboy takes a bite out off a fiddle. DP: Vladimír Novotný.
“The Kola Loka is the law!”
– Limonádový Joe
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How much Wood would a Woodchuck chuck… – Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache (Werner Herzog, 1976)
Apr
20
National Auctioneers Day
One of the younger auctioneers during his attempt. DP: Thomas Mauch.
#Herzog travels to New Holland, Pennsylvania to witness the 1976 World Livestock Auctioneer Championship. Cattle is weighed and paraded in front of the buyers, and the 53 contestants have a few minutes to auction the animals off to the highest bidder.
We see glimpses of the audience. New Holland is the land of the money-eschewing #Amish, descendants of German-speaking Swiss, whose dress, ways and speech found an ideal state in an increasingly convoluted world. While money rolls, the Amish hand out their home-baked pies free of charge to the Championship onlookers.
To German-as-Apfeltorte Herzog, the auction is bewildering, the “last #poetry possible, the poetry of #capitalism”. In keeping with Herzog's poetic, ecstatic truth, Bruno S. too travels to America and encounters the auctioneers in Stroszek (1977).
