Underplayed Gems

God's Angry Man (1981)

God's Angry Man poster
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
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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.

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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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