Movie: Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur

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Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog

Narrator (voice)

André Heller
André Heller

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    Jag Mandir is a quiet and often overlooked film in the vast oeuvre of Werner Herzog. Apparently, 20 hours of footage was shot that covered the whole fest and the film hardly presents us a twentieth of that. A native walking into the film in between may well fail to immediately realize that it is his country that is being shown and these are figures from the mythology of various sections of his nation. The bulk of the film consists of footage of an elaborate theatrical performance for the Maharana Arvind Singh Mewar at the City Palace of Udaipur, Rajasthan staged by André Heller.

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    1991-11-10

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    5.75

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    2.9 starts
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