| How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck | |
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Herzog can be seen in the auctioneer's booth |
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| Directed by | Werner Herzog |
| Produced by | Werner Herzog |
| Written by | Werner Herzog |
| Narrated by | Werner Herzog |
| Starring | Werner Herzog Steve Liptay Ralph Wade Alan Ball Abe Diffenbach |
| Cinematography | Thomas Mauch |
| Editing by | Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus |
| Studio | Werner Herzog Filmproduktion |
| Distributed by | Süddeutscher Rundfunk (West Germany) Palace Video (UK) |
| Release date(s) | February 14, 1977 (West Germany) |
| Running time | 45 min. |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | English German |
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck is a 1976 documentary film by German director Werner Herzog, produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion. It is a 44 minute film documenting the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship held in New Holland, Pennsylvania. Herzog has said that he believes auctioneering to be "the last poetry possible, the poetry of capitalism."[1]
Herzog describes the auctioneering as an "extreme language ... frightening but quite beautiful at the same time."[2] Herzog used two of the featured auctioneers as actors in his later film Stroszek.
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