The White Diamond (2004)
November 13, 2004Release Date
The White Diamond (2004)
November 13, 2004Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
Currently The White Diamond is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Amazon Video
Streaming in:🇩🇪 Germany
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Werner Herzog
Self - Narrator
Graham Dorrington
Self
Dieter Plage
Self (archive footage)
Adrian de Schryver
Self (archive footage)
Annette Scheurich
Self
Marc Anthony Yhap
Self
Michael Wilk
Self
Anthony Melville
Self
Marion Pöllmann
Writer
Jan-Peter Meewes
Self
Jason Gibson
Self
Walter Saxer
Line Producer
Rudolph Herzog
Writer
Rainer Bergomaz
Writer
Ernst Reijseger
Composer
Eric Spitzer
Composer
Media.
Details.
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The White Diamond is a 2004 documentary film by Werner Herzog. It illustrates the history of aviation and depicts the struggles and triumphs of Graham Dorrington, an aeronautical engineer, who has designed and built a teardrop-shaped airship which he plans to fly over the forest canopies of Guyana. It features music composed by Ernst Reijseger, which was re-used in Herzog's 2005 film The Wild Blue Yonder.
Most of the film focuses on Dorrington's flights near Kaieteur Falls, in Guyana. Dorrington discusses the mechanics of his flight, as well as his own struggles with uncertainty and the "heaviness" he feels after the death of the cinematographer Dieter Plage. The film also explores the Kaieteur Falls themselves, a local man named Marc Anthony Yhap, a diamond miner, and the white-tipped swifts (Aeronautes montivagus) which roost in an inaccessible cave behind the falls.
The film holds a score of 83 (based on 12 reviews) on the film review aggregator website Metacritic and a score of 90% (based on 20 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes.