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Vivid ‘Encounters’ at Earth’s (and Life’s) Extremes

“We flew into the unknown, a seemingly endless void,” says director Werner Herzog at the start of his latest wonderful and peculiar documentary.

He’s headed to Antarctica — to the McMurdo research station, to be precise — and he’s looking for answers. Sort of. Being Werner Herzog, he’s posing questions that resist actual resolutions.

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Tags: Antarctica, Interview, NPR, Werner Herzog