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La Soufrière (1977)

La Soufrière poster
Original title
La Soufrière: Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe
Directed by
Werner Herzog
Genre
documentary film
Country
Germany
Runtime
30 min
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 60 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A German filmmaker travels to a deserted town in Guadeloupe where residents have fled a volcano expected to erupt at any moment. He wanders through empty streets and meets a few people who chose to stay behind.

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What happens

La Soufrière – Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe ("La Soufrière – Waiting for an Inevitable Disaster") is a 1977 documentary film in which German director Werner Herzog visits an evacuated town on the island of Guadeloupe, where the volcano La Grande Soufrière is predicted to erupt. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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