God’s Angry Man
Glaube und Währung: Dr. Gene Scott, Fernsehprediger
Germany • 1981
Director
Synopsis
Werner Herzog’s portrait of all-American demagoguery focuses on Gene Scott, a televangelist whose fiery on-air tirades—against everything from the FCC to his own viewers—are contrasted with a behind-the-scenes portrait of an isolated, self-obsessed man lost in his own delusions. What emerges is a by turns fascinating and unsettling vision of paranoid charlatanism in the guise of religious zealotry.
Synopsis
Werner Herzog’s portrait of all-American demagoguery focuses on Gene Scott, a televangelist whose fiery on-air tirades—against everything from the FCC to his own viewers—are contrasted with a behind-the-scenes portrait of an isolated, self-obsessed man lost in his own delusions. What emerges is a by turns fascinating and unsettling vision of paranoid charlatanism in the guise of religious zealotry.
Credits
Crew
Cast
Werner Herzogas Narrator (voice)
Gene Scottas Self