God's Angry Man (1981)

Original title

Glaube und Währung: Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger

Directed by

Werner Herzog

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany

Runtime

44 min

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about a televangelist pastor who rants about government regulators and demands money from his viewers. Werner Herzog films the pastor at work in his television studio, showing his fundraising tactics and his combative personality.

observationalintenseconfrontationaldryly humorousmeditativeslow-pacedquirkyfocused

What happens

God's Angry Man is a 1981 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog about Gene Scott, a U.S. pastor and Stanford PhD who served for almost fifty years as an ordained minister and religious broadcaster in Los Angeles. The film was produced for television. The German title Glaube und Währung translates as Faith and Currency. The film consists of footage of Scott on the set of his television program Festival of Faith and interviews with Scott and Scott's parents conducted by Herzog. The footage from Scott's television program focuses almost exclusively on his fund-raising efforts and an elaborate rant against the Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.), which Scott blamed for threatening to revoke his broadcasting license. Scott at one point refuses to speak until his viewers pledge an additional $600. After several minutes of silence, he yells angrily at the camera until a production assistant informs him that they have received $700. Scott represents the F.C.C. on his show by a cymbal-banging monkey toy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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