For other uses, see White Diamond (disambiguation).
2004 film
The White Diamond
The White Diamond DVD cover
Directed by
Werner Herzog
Written by
Annette Scheurich Rudolph Herzog
Produced by
Marco Polo Film AG
Starring
Graham Dorrington Werner Herzog Dieter Plage
Narrated by
Werner Herzog
Music by
Ernst Reijseger
Release date
2004 (2004)
Running time
90 minutes
Language
English
The White Diamond is a 2004 documentary film by Werner Herzog. It illustrates the history of aviation and depicts the struggles and triumphs of Graham Dorrington, an aeronautical engineer, who has designed and built a teardrop-shaped airship which he plans to fly over the forest canopies of Guyana. It features music composed by Ernst Reijseger, which was re-used in Herzog's 2005 film The Wild Blue Yonder.
Most of the film focuses on Dorrington's flights near Kaieteur Falls, in Guyana. Dorrington discusses the mechanics of his flight, as well as his own struggles with uncertainty and the "heaviness" he feels after the death of the cinematographer Dieter Plage. The film also explores the Kaieteur Falls themselves, a local man named Marc Anthony Yhap, a diamond miner, and the white-tipped swifts (Aeronautes montivagus) which roost in an inaccessible cave behind the falls.
The film holds a score of 83 (based on 12 reviews) on the film review aggregator website Metacritic[1] and a score of 90% (based on 20 reviews) on Rotten Tomatoes.[2]
^The White Diamond on Metacritic. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
^The White Diamond on Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
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