“Of Walking in Ice”: Walking from Munich to Paris to Save a Life. Not a Film, but Reality!

Erdal Turna
3 min readDec 25, 2023

Werner Herzog’s extraordinary 22-day winter walking journey.

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Renowned filmmaker Werner Herzog was shaken by a phone call from Paris in the last days of November 1974.

He learns that his close friend and German film historian Lotte Eisner is seriously ill and struggling with death…

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Erdal Turna

In the aftermath of a half-century, I breathe through writing. And thus, life continues from where it left off.