"Of course we are challenging nature itself and it hits back. It just hits back. That's all, and that's "grandiose" about it, and we have to accept that it's much stronger than we are."
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Werner Herzog
deutscher Regisseur, Filmproduzent, Schauspieler, Synchronsprecher und Schriftsteller
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