“Filled with BREATHTAKING IMAGES.
One of the greatest and most original of documentary filmmakers.”
– J. Hoberman, The New York Times

“AN INEXPRESSIBLY BEAUTIFUL AND MOVING FILM!
Do whatever you must to see (it). It’s an indescribable, haunting human story of airships, disasters, and the mysteries of the Guyanese jungle. No one else in nonfiction filmmaking is doing what Herzog is doing, and no one could.”
– Andrew O’Hehir, Salon

“A SUPERB maker of documentaries.”
– Time Out New York

“Herzog is at the top of his game!”
– DOX Magazine

A huge white helium-filled balloon, shaped like a teardrop or white diamond, floats above the lush Amazon canopy in the heart of Guyana. Who better than Werner Herzog to accompany eccentric aeronautics expert Dr. Graham Dorrington on his quest to vindicate the death of a friend in the course of a similar, though ill-fated expedition 12 years earlier? Herzog is at the height of his ruminative, poetic powers as he enters the jungle landscape he knows so well from the making of FITZCARRALDO and AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD. The two-person airship is a fantasy of dream-like beauty: powerful, yet ethereal; an invention of science that caters to our deepest hopes and fears. Together Herzog and Dorrington go where few have dared. We are privileged to join their breathtaking adventure.

• Official Werner Herzog site
• Read Werner Herzog's New Direction by J. HOBERMAN in THE NEW YORK TIMES, Sunday, May 8, 2005
• John Anderson's Village Voice feature article on Werner Herzog