'Dr. Enly is there such thing as insanity around penguins? I try to avoid the definition of insanity or derangement. I don’t mean that a penguin might believe he or she is Lenin or Napoleon Bonaparte. But could they just go crazy because they had enough of their colony?'
'Um, well I never seen a penguin bashing its head against a rock. Um, they do get disoriented. They end up in places they shouldn’t be a long way from the ocean.' These penguins heading all to the open water to the right. But one of them caught our eye. The one in the center he would neither go towards the feeding grounds at the edge of the ice nor return to the colony. Shortly afterwards we saw him heading straight towards the mountains some 70km away. Dr. Enly explained that even if he caught him and brought him back to the colony, he would immediately head right back for the mountains. But why?

From: Encounters at the End of the World by Werner Herzog

List of participants:
Ludi: Yael Esti Mor
Swan: Bacchus
Mama: Mama
Art direction and production: Katharina Ruhm
Camera, direction: Maidje Meergans
Screenwriting: Yael Esti Mor and Katharina Ruhm
Set designer: Katharina Ruhm
Construction coordinator: Clemens Behr
Post-production: Yael Esti Mor and Guy Kohavi
Music by: Guy Kohavi
Costume design: Florian Winges
Make up: Anri Omori
Hair: Koseku Ikeuchi
Scene photography: Maidje Meergans (cover photo)
Photography behind the scenes: Lukas Städler
Swan:

Special thanks to:
Lilli Hölker for being so kind and spontaneous.
Stefan Knauf for keeping a dead swan in his storage and lending it to us.