This man is a courageous and great DP who, along with Thomas Mauch, has
been to hell and back, sometimes quite literally, with Werner Herzog. That
would be enough to warrant induction, but I shall furnish y’all with more
details. He contributed to some of the maestro’s more baroque features, such as
The Enigma Of Kasper Hauser, Heart Of Glass and Nosferatu, Phanton Der Nacht,
and also to carry that mystique of “ecstatic truth” over to some of his
documentaries, namely Fata Morgana and La Soufriere. Even in the midst of
adversity (on Fata Morgana the crew were imprisoned because Schmidt-Reitwein’s
name was similar to that of German mercenary who was sentenced to death in
absentia; La Soufriere was shot with a guerrilla crew of three on an evacuated
island where a volcano is predicted to erupt), he managed to capture some of
the most startling images in all of cinema.
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