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Signature. Werner Herzog ( German: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈhɛʁtsoːk]; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, and author. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, [1] people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in ...
Werner Herzog (born September 5, 1942, Munich, Germany) is a German motion-picture director whose unusual films captured men and women at psychological extremes. With Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff, Herzog led the influential postwar West German cinema movement.
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In the following years, Herzog became one of the internationally most renowned filmmakers of the emerging New German Cinema-movement along with fellow directors Wim Wenders, Volker Schlöndorff, Edgar Reitz, Werner Schroeter and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. However, Herzog never fully emerged in this group and had always had his reservations about it.
Feb 21, 2024 · “I didn’t know the Japanese had a word for something that, in our language, we need a couple of lines to explain,” says Wenders, the 78-year-old German director behind Wings of Desire, Alice in the Cities, and Paris, Texas. “It’s very specific.”
Dec 3, 2019 · Wim Wenders is the same. Much of the fragile and harried boy survivor in J. G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun survives in Herzog’s book of interviews: Do you ever get bored?
Jan 1, 2024 · A leading light of the New German Cinema movement (alongside Wim Wenders, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and others) that re-energised 1970s European film, Werner Herzog forged his own idiosyncratic path from the outset – one he’s continued to follow for well over half a century.
Oct 15, 2023 · Tim Lewis. The pioneering German film‑maker, actor and writer answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including John Waters, Nicole Kidman and Wim Wenders. Sun 15 Oct...
