Werner Herzog
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations as characters in his films. Herzog started work on his first film Herakles in 1961, when he was nineteen. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature films and documentaries, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart of Glass (1976), Stroszek (1977), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Cobra Verde (1987), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Herzog, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Extravagant Little Life of Jean-Claude D. Dreyfus
Jag Mandir: The Eccentric Private Theatre of the Maharaja of Udaipur
La Soufrière: Waiting for an Inevitable Catastrophe
To the End of the World... and Then a Little Bit Further
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft
Russian Adventure. Peter Fleischmann is Filming "Hard to Be a God"
Behind the Madness: The Making of My Son, My Son
Munich (Filmfest) Stories - 25 years of Munich Filmfest
No Mr. Werner Herzog, this isn't your Cinématon
Stardust Stricken: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, A Portrait
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Anyone who dares will take the cold off their horse
Werner Herzog and Errol Morris on 'The Act of Killing'
Werner Herzog: On Death Row and Life as a Director
The Making of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
The Best of Tromadance Film Festival: Volume 3
Film Beyond Cinema: The Dumpster Kid Experiment and Other Utopias
