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 conflict with nature. [2] .

Werner Herzog (born 1942) [1] is a German filmmaker whose films often feature ambitious or deranged protagonists with impossible dreams. [2][3] Herzog's works span myriad genres and mediums, but he is particularly well known for his documentary films, …

Werner Herzog. Director: Fitzcarraldo. Director. Writer. 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.

Dec 22, 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.

Werner Herzog's long-awaited memoir recounts a life of the century that wouldn't even fit into one of his own famous films. A perpetually hungry boy, fleeing with his mother from bombed Munich to a desperately poor nest in the Alps.

2 hours ago · Deadline has reported that Herzog will write and direct the film, with production set to begin in the spring in Ireland and Slovenia. The piece is said to be based on a real-life story of Joan and ...

Nosferatu the Vampyre (German: Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht, lit. 'Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night') is a 1979 gothic horror film directed and written by Werner Herzog.The film serves as both a remake [a] of the 1922 film Nosferatu and an adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. [b] Herzog’s film is set in 19th-century Wismar, Germany, and Transylvania.

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 …

2 days ago · EXCLUSIVE: Real-life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara are now looking to play fictional sisters as the two are set to star in Bucking Fastard, a new movie from Werner Herzog. Herzog will write and ...

Werner Herzog Filmmaker and Writer. Biography. Born in Germany in 1942, Werner Herzog grew up in a remote mountain valley in Bavaria. He did not know of the existence of cinema until age 11 and made his first phone call at 17 — followed by his first film at age 19 and his first literary publications at 23.