The indefatigable Werner Herzog has made a brilliant documentary about an American saint and fool Timothy Treadwell, a failed actor and California surfer who fell in love with the grizzly bears in Alaska and who spent a dozen summers with the bears, usually alone and always unarmed.

NEWYORKER: Grizzly Man

Mayhem ensues, and the now-unarmed heavy is usually captured alive.

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