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Werner Herzog“Together, I said, we shall boil fire and stop fish.”
He studied at the University of Munich and simultaneously worked nightshifts as a welder in a steel factory. He had a dream: to make his first film and Werner did it at the age of 19. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than forty films, directed operas and published more than a dozen books of prose. Werner Herzog’s name is connected with the German New Wave movement (the so-called “New German Cinema”). The characters of his films are strange romantics, who have impossible dreams and believe in miracles or individuals, who find themselves in conflict with society, try to break the rules and destroy the imposed bounds to set free their spirit. Werner Herzog’s works have got many different awards. Among them are the Silver Bear for his first feature film “Signs of Life”, the best director award for “Fitzcarraldo” at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, The Special Jury Prize for his movie “The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser” at the same festival, Golden Palm for “Woyzeck” and “Where the green ants dream”. His films were also nominated at many other very important international festivals: César Awards (“Aguirre”, “The Wrath of God”), Emmy Awards (“Little Dieter Needs to Fly”), European Film Awards (“My Best Fiend”) and Venice Film Festival (“Scream of Stone” and “The Wild Blue Yonder”). On January 2006, giving an interview for the BBC, Herzog was shot on film with an air rifle by an unknown individual. He did not stop the interview and showed his wound on camera. Herzog behaved as if nothing extraordinary had happened, remarking "It is not a significant bullet”. It is the way he is. Selected Filmography: 2008 - Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans German Short Films Rainer Werner Fassbinder Wim Wenders German Movies |
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Werner Herzog (real name Werner H. Stipetic) was born in Munich on September 5, 1942. He grew up iin a remote mountain village, where were any films, television, or telephones. In the age of 14 he decided to see the world and started traveling on foot. During the same time he was inspired by an encyclopedia entry about film-making, the boy stole the 35 mm camera from the Munich Film School. It was the beginning of his future way. Later Herzog admitted: "I don't consider it theft — it was just a necessity — I had some sort of natural right for a camera, a tool to work with.”Powered by Website design company Alex-Designs.com