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A murder mystery – unwittingly starring Werner Herzog – unfolds in this ironically self-reflective hybrid-doc adapted from an AI-generated screenplay trained on Herzog’s oeuvre.
A computer will not make a film as good as mine in 4,500 years.
After a local factory worker named Dorem Clery dies under mysterious circumstances, Werner Herzog travels to Getunkirchenburg to investigate his perplexing death. But Herzog, our narrator, is not who he seems, and the film is not what we expect.
About a Hero is an adaptation of a script written by AI trained on Herzog’s body of work.
Opening the prestigious 2024 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), and co-starring Vicky Krieps and Stephen Fry, the documentary is ironically self-reflective. As the mystery unfolds, director Piotr Winiewicz intertwines the narrative with a series of ‘real’ interviews with artists, philosophers and scientists reflecting on the notion of originality, authenticity, mortality and soul in the age of AI.
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