Grizzly Man
Year: 2005
Running time: 100 mins
USA/Canada
Photography: Peter Zeitlinger
Editor: Joe Bini
Music: Richard Thompson
Narrator: Werner Herzog
M offensive language
With: Timothy Treadwell, Amie Huguenard, Warren Queeney, Willy Fulton, Sam Egli, Marnie Gaede, Marc Gaede, Larry Van Daele, Franc Falico, Jewel Palovak, Val Dexter, Carol Dexter, Kathleen Parker
Festivals: Sundance 2005
Self-taught naturalist Timothy Treadwell spent 12 summers living in the wilds of Alaska, obsessively filming the activities of grizzly bears. Treadwell became incredibly familiar with dozens of bears, naming them like pets. His methods and his fierce identification with the bears were seen by qualified researchers as misguided, cavalier and exceptionally dangerous. Seeing him in the company of these majestic wild beasts, at one point even providing commentary as two of them fight, is amazing, scary stuff. It’s not a surprise perhaps that he and his girlfriend were ultimately killed by a bear in October 2003. How could he have thought that it would end any other way? Werner Herzog, cine-biographer supreme of nature’s obsessives, delves into the wilful romanticism of Treadwell’s quest, drawing extensively on the 100 hours of extraordinary video footage he left behind. “
Grizzly Man is a brilliant portrait of adventure, activism, obsession and potential madness that ranks among Werner Herzog’s strongest work.” — Scott Foundas,
Variety
