Wheel of Time (film)

2003 documentary film about Tibetan Buddhism directed by Werner Herzog

Wheel of Time

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Directed by| Werner Herzog
Written by| Werner Herzog
Produced by| Lucki Stipetic
Starring| The Dalai Lama
Takna Jigme Zangpo
Narrated by| Werner Herzog
Distributed by| Werner Herzog Filmproduktion

Release date

* 2003 (2003)

Running time

| 81 minutes
Countries| Germany
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Languages| German
English

Wheel of Time is a 2003 documentary film about Tibetan Buddhism by German director Werner Herzog. The title refers to the Kalachakra sand mandala that provides a recurring image for the film.[1]

## Content

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The film documents the two Kalachakra initiations of 2002, presided over by the fourteenth Dalai Lama. The first, in Bodhgaya India, was disrupted by the Dalai Lama's illness. Later that same year, the event was held again, this time without disruption, in Graz, Austria. The film's first location is the Bodhgaya, the site of the Mahabodhi Temple and the Bodhi tree. Herzog then turns to the pilgrimage at Mount Kailash, after which the film then focuses on the second gathering in Graz.

Herzog includes a personal interview with the Dalai Lama,[2] as well as Tibetan former political prisoner Takna Jigme Zangpo, who served 37 years in a Chinese prison for his support of the International Tibet Independence Movement.

## References

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1. ^ Holden, Stephen (2005-06-15). "With Herzog, Inside a World of Devotion". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
2. ^ Gonzalez, Ed (2005-06-03). "Review: Wheel of Time". Slant Magazine. Retrieved 2023-05-16.

## External links

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* Wheel of Time at IMDb

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* Bibliography

Feature films|

* Signs of Life (1968)
* Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
* Fata Morgana (1971)
* Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
* The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
* Heart of Glass (1976)
* Stroszek (1977)
* Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
* Woyzeck (1979)
* Fitzcarraldo (1982)
* Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
* Cobra Verde (1987)
* Scream of Stone (1991)
* Lessons of Darkness (1992)
* Invincible (2001)
* The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
* Rescue Dawn (2006)
* Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
* My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
* Queen of the Desert (2015)
* Salt and Fire (2016)
* Family Romance, LLC (2019)

Documentaries|

* The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969)
* Handicapped Future (1971)
* Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
* The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
* How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
* La Soufrière (1977)
* Huie's Sermon (1981)
* God's Angry Man (1981)
* Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
* The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985)
* Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
* Echoes from a Sombre Empire (1990)
* Jag Mandir (1991)
* Bells from the Deep (1993)
* The Transformation of the World into Music (1994)
* Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995)
* Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
* My Best Fiend (1999)
* Wings of Hope (2000)
* Pilgrimage (2001)
* Ten Thousand Years Older (2002)
* Wheel of Time (2003)
* The White Diamond (2004)
* Grizzly Man (2005)
* Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
* Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
* Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
* Into the Abyss (2011)
* On Death Row (2012)
* Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
* Into the Inferno (2016)
* Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
* Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019)
* Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds (2020)
* The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022)

Shorts|

* Herakles (1962)
* Game in the Sand (1964)
* The Unprecedented Defence of the Fortress Deutschkreuz (1967)
* Last Words (1968)
* Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)
* No One Will Play with Me (1976)
* Portrait Werner Herzog (1986)
* Les Gaulois (1988)
* La bohème (2009)

Other|

* Incident at Loch Ness (2004)

Books|

* Of Walking in Ice (1978)
* Conquest of the Useless (2004)
* The Twilight World (2021)
* Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2022)

Related|

* Lena Herzog (wife)
* Lucki Stipetić (brother)
* Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)
* Burden of Dreams (1982)
* Location Africa (1987)
* Plastic Bag (2009)

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