Handicapped Future [SEP] director
Handicapped Future
Handicapped Future () is a 1971 documentary film by Werner Herzog about physically disabled children in Munich.
The film was made at the request of a disabled friend of Herzog's, specifically in order to raise awareness for the cause of the disabled in West Germany. Herzog compares the film to his earlier "The Flying Doctors of East Africa" in that it has very little stylization, and is, he says, "dangerously conventional." During production of "Handicapped Future", Herzog met Fini Straubringer
worked together ever since, with José writing the screenplays to many of De La Iglesia's films.
In 1993 De La Iglesia received a big break when Spain's most famous director, Pedro Almodóvar, produced his debut feature "Accion mutante" (Mutant Action). This tale of a group of crippled and handicapped outcasts in the future taking arms against handsome oppressors, became an independent success globally.
The next step he took was "El día de la Bestia" (The Day Of The Beast) (1995