Werner Herzog is a renowned German film director, producer, screenwriter, author and actor. He is considered one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema movement. Herzog's films often feature heroes pursuing impossible dreams or individuals in conflict with nature. French director François Truffaut called Herzog "the most important film director alive," and critic Roger Ebert said that even Herzog's failures are spectacular. Herzog has directed over 50 films and has worked in a consistent and distinctive style throughout his career.

1. Werner Herzog

2. Werner Herzog Stipetić, known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter,
author, actor and opera director. Herzog is considered one of the greatest figures of the New
German Cinema, along with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff,
Werner Schröter, and Wim Wenders. Herzog's films often feature heroes with impossible dreams,
people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals who are in conflict with nature. French
filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American
film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised,
shameful, made for pragmatic reasons or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was
named one of the 100 most influential people on the planet by Time Magazine in 2009.
Biography

3. Werner Herzog is a non-canonical director who works with a specific and extraordinarily consiste
Styles/ Conventions

4. • Echoes From a Somber Empire (1990)
• Jag Mandir (1991)
• Lessons of Darkness (1992)Bells from the (1993)
• The Transformation of the World into Music (1994)
• Gesualdo: Death for Five Voices (1995)
• Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)
• My Best Fiend (1999)
• Wings of Hope (2000)
• Wheel of Time (2003)
• The White Diamond (2004)
• Grizzly Man (2005)
• Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
• Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
• Into the Abyss (2011)
• The Flying Doctors of East Africa (1969)
• Handicapped Future (1971)
• Land of Silence and Darkness (1971)
• Fata Morgana (1972)
• The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
• How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976)
• Huie's Sermon (1981)
• God's Angry Man (1981)
• Ballad of the Little Soldier (1984)
• The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984)
• Herdsmen of the Sun (1989)
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