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...built at the taxpayers' expense. "Floodlit sheep meadows," grumbles Reiner Holznagel, managing director of the German Federation of Taxpayers. "In every district you can find projects that make you shake your head." Among the most egregious: the now-bankrupt firm Cargolifter, which tried to build a modern Zeppelin airship with tens of millions of government dollars. (See pictures of the Top 10 scared traders...
Most of the world's Zeppelin hangars have disappeared since the deadly explosion of the Hindenburg abruptly ended the airship era in 1937. But five of them, originally built for German war dirigibles, have long been a point of local pride in Latvia's cosmopolitan capital of Riga, where they've been converted to a higher and more peaceful purpose: food...
Riga's Central Market is a playground for the serious food shopper. This vast bazaar houses hundreds of stalls in the airship pavilions, each of which specializes in a different category of fresh produce: meat, dairy, breads, fruits and veggies, and fish. Step inside any one of them and you're met with an environment so lively and authentic you'll be eager to claim your spot among the haggling locals...
Often, the dream is to fly: on skis (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner) or in an airship (The White Diamond) or in a U.S. Navy plane (Little Dieter Needs to Fly). That last film--about a German boy who arrived in America with the dream of flying, flew missions over Vietnam, was captured and tortured, and escaped--had so much natural drama that Herzog turned it into a "real" movie, Rescue Dawn, with Christian Bale as Dieter...
...activist's annual trip to commune with the beasts who finally tear him apart, is a kind of Brokebear Mountain, evoking human love and obsession. It shared the New York Film Critics' Circle award for Best Documentary with Herzog's The White Diamond, about an attempt to fly an airship over the Guyanese rain forest--sheer soaring rapture...