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. 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 (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'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.

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.

4 days 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 ...

Dec 9, 2024 · Werner Herzog turned 82 on September 5, 2024. He can no longer embody the fearless adventurer he once was—the tireless walker, agile climber, cold-defying explorer, and daredevil filmmaker who ventured into jungles and deserts.

Dec 6, 2024 · Herzog reflects on the curiosity that's fueled his career in the memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All, now out in paperback.

Fitzcarraldo (/fɪtskə'raldo/) is a 1982 West German epic adventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski as would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who is determined to transport a steamship over the Andes mountains to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin.