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Werner Herzog ( German: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈhɛʁtsoːk]; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author.
Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy.
Werner Herzog (born 1942) is a German filmmaker whose films often feature ambitious or deranged protagonists with impossible dreams. Herzog's works span myriad genres and mediums, but he is particularly well known for his documentary films, which he typically narrates.
Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy.
Werner Herzog, director of more than 40 feature films and documentaries that rank among the milestones of cinematic art, talks with writer Jan Brandt about the importance of writing and literature for his work.
May 29, 2024 · Werner Herzog, German motion-picture director whose unusual films captured men and women at psychological extremes. With Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlondorff, Herzog led the influential postwar West German cinema movement.
Oct 18, 2023 · Long recognized as one of the world’s leading independent filmmakers, Werner Herzog is also an actor, opera director and writer. And after filming stories around the world, he now tells his own...
Herzog was the first filmmaker to enter the Chauvet Cave in southern France, shooting his 3D documentary ‚Cave of Forgotten Dreams‘ (2010). He also made a film portrait about inmates on death row (Into the Abyss, 2011), which was followed by a series of eight parts (On Death Row, 2012-2013).
Apr 26, 2022 · Werner Herzog Has Never Liked Introspection. A conversation with the filmmaker about the place of literature, the toll of war, and the conviction that his writing will outlast his movies. By...
Oct 3, 2023 · Werner Herzog, Who Recorded the Audio Version of His Memoir, Insists His Words Will Outlive His Movies. Werner Herzog has traveled to the ends of the earth for his art, rolling cameras in...
