![]() ![]() Nine years later, Into the Inferno sees the pair embark on a quintessentially Herzogian expedition, Oppenheimer hoping to repair the reputation of the noble volcano in the film’s snatches between spectacular footage and the filmmaker’s exploration of the cultural belief systems that manifest around them. Making that film, he struck up a friendship with the amiable Cambridge professor Clive Oppenheimer. Three decades later he met “a strange and wonderful tribe of volcanologists, some of them overcome by altitude sickness” on the crater of Mount Erebus while filming Encounters at the End of the World. In 1976 he ventured headlong onto the island of Guadeloupe as everyone else was fleeing an imminent eruption because he had heard about a man who was refusing to evacuate the result was his short film La Soufrière. His cinematic interest in volcanoes predates this film by 40 years.
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