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Into the Abyss (2011)

Name: Into the Abyss
Director: Werner Herzog
Genre: documentary film, drama film, prison film
Rating: 7.3

Into the Abyss is a 2011 documentary film written and directed by Werner Herzog. It is about capital punishment, and focuses on a triple homicide that occurred in Montgomery County, Texas, in 2001. In the film, Herzog interviews the two young men convicted of the crime, Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, as well as family members and acquaintances of the victims and criminals, and individuals who have taken part in…

Directed by Werner Herzog · Shot by Peter Zeitlinger · Cut by Joe Bini · Music by Mark De Gli Antoni

Behind the scenes

JUICE WRLD: INTO THE ABYSS Conversation at AFI FEST — American Film Institute · 8 min

Elsewhere

More by Werner Herzog

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Ghost Elephants
Herakles — 1962
Game in the Sand — 1964
The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz — 1966
Last Words — 1967
Precautions Against Fanatics — 1968
Signs of Life — 1968
The Flying Doctors of East Africa — 1969
Even Dwarfs Started Small — 1970
Fata Morgana — 1970
Land of Silence and Darkness — 1971
Handicapped Future — 1971
Aguirre, the Wrath of God — 1972
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser — 1974
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner — 1974
Heart of Glass — 1976
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck — 1976
No One Will Play with Me — 1976
Stroszek — 1977
La Soufrière — 1977
Nosferatu the Vampyre — 1979
Woyzeck — 1979
God's Angry Man — 1981
Huie's Sermon — 1981
Fitzcarraldo — 1982
Where the Green Ants Dream — 1984
The Dark Glow of the Mountains — 1984
Ballad of the Little Soldier — 1984
Portrait Werner Herzog — 1986

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