Doc - How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (Herzog, 1976)

Herzog takes you inside the world championship of cattle auctioneers...and it's awesome!

Curated by Whitney Weiss

Total Runtime: 0:44:30

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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.

Doc - How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (Herzog, 1976)

Doc - How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (Herzog, 1976)

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