and presumably eaten by the monster. After Penn and the assistant director (Robert O'Meara), sneak away in the liferaft, Herzog decides to put on the ship's sole wetsuit and swim to shore for help. Before he can do so, however, "Nessie" returns to finally sink the ship. While holding a camera in a water-resistant housing, Herzog captures underwater images of a large creature passing him in the murky, dark water. The next day, Penn is found by vacationers and leads them back to recover all but O'Meara and Karnow, who are presumed dead. At this point, it appears that both the documentary film we have been watching and the documentary film we were watching Herzog make could be fictitious. However, this never becomes completely obvious, and the film ends without making it clear exactly who is duping whom. Cast Werner Herzog as Himself Kitana Baker as Herself Gabriel Beristain as Himself Russell Williams II as Himself David A. Davidson as Himself Michael Karnow as Himself Robert O'Meara as Himself Zak Penn as Himself Steven Gardner as Himself Adrian Shine as Himself John Bailey as Herzog's Crew In Wonderland Matthew Nicolay as Herzog's Crew In Wonderland Tanja Koop as Herzog's Crew In Wonderland Marty Signore as Herzog's Crew In Wonderland Crispin Glover as Party Guest Jeff Goldblum as Part Guest Lena Herzog as Party Guest Ricky Jay as Party Guest Pietro Scalia as Party Guest Jenno Topping as Party Guest Stephen A. Marinaccio as Propmaster Michael Scott-Law as Angry Man At Bar Production The entire movie is actually a mockumentary film-within-a-film-within-a-film invented by Penn. The ruse is revealed in Easter eggs hidden on the DVD. Penn wrote what he calls a "scriptment" (part script, part treatment) that outlined the specific structure of the film and including key dialogue that was needed in order to advance the plot, but left most of the dialogue and interaction up to the participants to work out as improvisation. As shown on the DVD, the "hoax" was on even before photography started as several media outlets announced the upcoming production as an actual film. Adding to the verisimilitude is the fact that everyone who appears on screen is a real person and most are in fact who they say they are. For example, DP Gabriel Beristain and soundman Russell Williams II are well-known, distinguished professionals who did work on the productions they respectively name on screen.