| Director: | Werner Herzog |
| Assistant director: | Herbert Golder |
| Script supervisor: | Anja Schmidt-Zäringer (Continuity), Anja Schmidt-Zäringer (Continuity) |
| Screenplay: | Werner Herzog |
| Commentary: | Werner Herzog |
| Interviews: | Werner Herzog |
| Director of photography: | Peter Zeitlinger, Les Blank (Zusätzliche Aufnhmen) |
| Assistant camera: | Erik Söllner |
| Still photography: | Helen Kim |
| Production design: | Rudolph Herzog, Norbert Erben (Licht-Design) |
| Editing: | Rainer Standke, Glenn Scantlebury, Joe Bini |
| Assistant editor: | Glenn Scantlebury, Joe Bini |
| Sound editor: | Josh Rosen |
| Sound: | Ekkehard Baumung |
| Audio mixing: | David Nelson |
| Music: | Béla Bartók ("Buciumcana da Bisztra", "Danze Popolari Rumene"), Carlos Gardel ("Tango Volver", "Tango Juventud"), Glenn Miller ("In the Mood"), Kongar-ol Ondar ("Echoes of Tuva", Folk Music), Richard Wagner (Liebestod aus "Tristan und Isolde"), Antonin Dvořák (Symphonie op. 35 "Aus der Neuen Welt"), Johann Sebastian Bach ("Jesus bleibt meine Freude" aus Kantate Nr. 147) |
| Participation: | Dieter Dengler, Eugene P. Deatrick, Werner Herzog |
| Voice: | Werner Herzog |
| Production company: | Werner Herzog Filmproduktion (München) |
| in co-production with: | Cafe Productions (London) |
| Commissioned by: | Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Mainz), ZDF Enterprises GmbH (Mainz), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (London), Arte G.E.I.E. (Straßburg) |
| Producer: | Lucki Stipetić |
| Producer (TV): | Wolfgang Ebert |
| Executive producer: | André Singer |
| Production assistant: | Rudolph Herzog |
| Shoot: | 1997: Umgebung von San Francisco, Wildberg und Umgebung (Schwarzwald), Laos, Thailand [Frühjahr (?)] |
| Length: | 43 min bei 25 b/s |
| Format: | 35mm, 1:1,37 |
| Picture/Sound: | Eastmancolor (?), Ton |
| Screening: | TV-Erstsendung (DE AT CH): 15.11.1998, 3sat [deutsche Fassung] |
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