Handicapped Future

Disabled future is a documentary film by Werner Herzog from the year 1971. The film deals with the situation of physically disabled children in Munich.

A disabled friend Duke suggested to the director for the production of the film, in order to highlight disabled people in Germany into view.

Duke himself compared Disabled future, the scored big impact for the rest and had even performed in the wake of new laws in Germany, with its 1969 resulting film The Flying Doctors of East Africa, as well as this did without any form of dramatization. In retrospect, Duke was not sure if it disabled the future particularly liked, as he already " dangerous conventionally" was. Today he would be in such a film much more rugged approach us with the represented subject to the audience to reflect the need for change sharper.

During the filming of Herzog met Fini Straubinger the deaf-blind. This encounter led to another movie in the subject of disability called Land of Silence and Darkness, in which Straubinger had an important place. The film gained greater fame as disabled future.

Criticism

The lexicon of the International film ruled that it was a " discreet [n ] film about extreme situations of human life ." The film call " the responsibility of the healthy " one.