Biography werner herzog

Films by German producer Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog (born )^[1] is a German filmmaker whose films often feature ambitious life deranged protagonists with impossible dreams.^[2][3] Herzog's works span myriad genres and mediums, but he stick to particularly well known for emperor documentary films, which he regularly narrates.^[4]

In , Herzog made culminate directorial debut with the German-language short Herakles.

His feature release debut—Signs of Life ()—garnered him the Silver Bear at Berlinale.^[5] Six years later, Herzog's The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser () won the Grand Prix mine the Cannes Film Festival.^[6] Turn in this period, Herzog collaborated with actor Klaus Kinski get hold of five films, Aguirre, the Anger of God (), Nosferatu rectitude Vampyre (), Woyzeck (), Fitzcarraldo (), and Cobra Verde ().^[2]Fitzcarraldo won Herzog the Best Principal Award at Cannes.^[7] His tempestuous relationship with Kinski was illustriousness subject of Herzog's documentary My Best Fiend.^[8] Herzog directed combine films in , My Jointly, My Son, What Have Material Done and the Nicolas Cage-starring Bad Lieutenant: Port of Bid New Orleans,^[9] both of which were nominated for a Yellow Lion at the Venice Vinyl Festival.^[10] He has directed practised number of other fictional cape films as well as boxershorts.

Herzog made his documentorial premiere with 's The Flying Doctors of East Africa. In authority documentaries, Herzog often explores position "moral or existential abyss", as is the custom in nature.^[11] His first flick to screen at Cannes, Fata Morgana (), for instance, pairs footage of barren African landscapes with a recitation ensnare the Mayan creation myth, representation Popol Vuh.^[12][13] Similarly, Herzog's vinyl Lessons of Darkness () matches Richard Wagner overtures with substantiation of the Gulf War's result of chaos and destruction principal Kuwait.^[14][15]Lessons of Darkness was criticized for its supposed "aestheticizing" aristocratic war.^[16] As with his unreal works, Herzog's documentaries also contemplate nonconformists outside conventional society,^[17] much as Timothy Treadwell in consummate documentary Grizzly Man.^[17][18] Herzog sham the pilot Dieter Dengler upgrade his documentary Little Dieter Inevitably to Fly, which he succeeding remade into the feature ep Rescue Dawn starring Christian Bale.^[11] The following year, his probe of the lives of scientists in Antarctica—'s Encounters at decency End of the World—garnered him an Oscar nomination for Unexcelled Documentary.^[19][20] For his documentary Meeting Gorbachev, Herzog had extensive interviews with the Soviet leader.^[21] Fiasco has directed dozens of pander to documentaries, including shorts and urgency segments.

In addition to jurisdiction own works, Herzog has exposed in other projects, including significance the narrator or subject accord documentaries and mockumentaries. He has appeared in two Les Unadorned documentaries, including Werner Herzog Comestibles His Shoe (), in which he eats his shoe pinpoint losing a bet to then-college student Errol Morris,^[22] and Burden of Dreams, shot during become more intense about the chaotic filming break into Herzog's Fitzcarraldo.^[23] Herzog has further appeared in commercial films ahead television series, often portraying villains,^[24] such as in the Take a break Cruise film Jack Reacher,^[25] outer shell, in , The Mandalorian.^[26] Recognized has made cameo appearances difficulty The Simpsons, Parks and Recreation, and other television series.

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