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Werner Herzog 1 vɛɐ̯nɐ German hɛɐ̯tsoːk; born September 5, 1942 is a German writer, director, writer, actor and director of opera.
Herzog is considered one of the greatest figures of the new German cinema and Rainer Werner Fassbinder Margarethe von Trotta and Volker Schlöndorff Werner Schroeter film by Wim Wenders Herzog often feature heroes with impossible dreams, two people with unique talents in dark areas, or people who are in conflict with nature 3.
French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog largest producer living 4 American cinema critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog has never created a single film that is compromised, ashamed, made for pragmatic reasons, or without interest failures are spectacular 5 He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2009 6.
Herzog was born in Munich Werner Stipetić Elizabeth Stipetic, an Austrian of Croatian origin, and Dietrich Herzog, who was German When Werner was two weeks, his mother took refuge in the remote village of Sachrang Bavaria in the Chiemgau Alps, after house next to them was destroyed during a bombing raid in the Second World war in Sachrang 7, Herzog grew up without running water, flushing toilets or telephone, it has never seen films, and did not even know the existence of the cinema until a traveling projectionist came through the one-room schoolhouse in Sachrang 8 When Herzog was 12, he and his family moved to Munich his father had abandoned the family early in his youth Werner later adopted the surname of his father Herzog German duke, he believed sounded more impressive for a filmmaker 9.
The same year, Herzog said of singing in front of his class at school, and he flatly refused, and was almost expelled until he was eighteen, Herzog listened to no music, sang songs and studied no instruments, he later said he could easily give ten years of his life to be able to play the cello at a young age, he experienced a dramatic phase in which he converted to Catholicism, which does lasted a few years, he began to embark on long journeys, some of them on foot at the time, he knew he would be a filmmaker, and learned the basics of a few pages in an encyclopedia that it provided all that was needed to start me as a filmmaker, and the 35mm camera he stole from the Munich film School 10 in the commentary Aguirre, he said, I do think t theft it was a need I had a kind of natural law for a camera, a tool to work with he won a scholarship to Duquesne University and lasted only a few days, but li ved in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania During his last years of high school, no production company was ready to take on projects if Herzog worked night shifts as a welder in a steel factory to get the funds for its first featurettes after graduating from high school, he was intrigued by the Congo after its independence, but reached southern Sudan, where he fell seriously ill.
While movies already, he had a brief stint at the University of Munich, where he studied history and literature.
He earned money by participating in the pre-production of a documentary for NASA with KQED Appointed to the immigration office because of a violation of his visa status, he chose to flee to Mexico.
Before leaving school, he bought a house in the UK, in what was probably the Moss Side area of Manchester There he learned to speak English 11 In 1962, he directed his first short film, Herakles In school he focused on Latin and Greek, where he continues to play to this day.
In 1971, while Herzog was location scouting for Aguirre Peru, he narrowly avoided taking the booking LANSA flight 508 Herzog was canceled due to a last minute change in itinerary L aircraft was then hit by lightning and disintegrated, but a survivor, Juliane Koepcke lived after a free fall long haunted by the event, nearly 30 years later, he made a documentary film, Wings of hope 2000 that explored the history of the only survivor.
The star of Werner Herzog on Boulevard der Stars in Berlin.
Werner Herzog directed the early West German cinema movement and Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Volker Schlöndorff The movement of the West German cinema composed of filmmakers who were filming on low budgets and have been influenced by the French New Wave cinema .
Besides the use of German professional players, US and other Herzog is known for the use of people in the community where he mainly draws in his documentaries, he uses people to enjoy what he calls the truth ecstatic It uses pictures of non-actors who play both roles and be themselves.
Herzog and his films have been nominated and won numerous awards his first major award was the Silver Bear Special Jury Prize for his debut film Signs of Life Nosferatu the Vampyre 12 was also nominated for the Bear for gold in 1979 in particular, Herzog won the best director award for Fitzcarraldo at the Cannes festival in 1982 in 1975, his film the enigma of Kaspar Hauser won the grand Prix Special Jury also known as the Silver Palm at the festival Cannes other movies directed by Herzog nominated for Golden Palm are Woyzeck 1979 and where ants Green Dream in 1984.
In 1987, Herzog and his half-brother Lucki Stipetić won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Producing for Film Cobra Verde 13 In 2002, he won the Dragon of Dragons Honorary Award at the Festival of Krakow in Krakow.
Herzog was honored at the 49th San Francisco International Film receiving the Festival's Film Society in 2006 achieving the price 14 Four of his films have been presented at San Francisco International Film Festival Wodaabe - Shepherds of the Sun in 1990, Bells from the Deep in 1993 , Lessons of darkness in 1993, and the Wild Blue Yonder in 2006. Herzog's April 2007 appearance at Ebertfest in Champaign, Illinois earned him the Prix inch of gold, and he engraved glockenspiel given by a young filmmaker inspired by his films Grizzly Man directed by Herzog, won the Alfred P Sloan to meetings of the Sundance film Festival 2005 to the end of the world has won the award for best documentary at the International Festival of Edinburgh film 2008 and was nominated for the Oscar the first appointment of Herzog's feature documentary.
Herzog had promised to eat his shoe if Errol Morris finished the film project about pet cemeteries he had worked on in order to challenge and motivate Morris, which Herzog perceived as unable to implement the projects that he conceived in 1978, when the Gates of Heaven created movie, Werner Herzog cooked and eaten publicly his shoe, an event later incorporated into a short documentary Werner Herzog Eats her shoe by Blank at the event, Herzog suggested that he hoped the act would serve to encourage anyone having difficulty bringing a project to fruition.
In 2009, Herzog became the only filmmaker in recent history to enter two films in competition in the same year's prestigious Venice Film Festival Herzog Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans was made the official calendar of the competition of the festival, and his My son, My son, what makes you entered the competition as a surprise 15 Herzog film also provided the narration for the short film plastic Bag directed by Ramin Bahrani, who was the film opening night in the section Corto festival Cortissimo 16.
Dissatisfied with film schools so are managed, Herzog founded his own Rogue Film School in 2009. The program is a 4-day seminar with Herzog, who is held annually the last of which took place in March 2016 in the course Munich understand the art of crocheting foot Traveling the drunkenness of being shot at unsuccessfully the sporting side of cinema creating your own shooting permits neutralization of bureaucracy guerrilla tactics autonomy 17 for students, Herzog said, I prefer people who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs or were guards in the insane asylum You have to live life in its very basic forms Mexicans have a very beautiful word pura vida it doesn t means that the purity of life, but the quality first, -nu of life and that's what makes young people more in a filmmaker academia 18.
Herzog made a documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams in 2010, which shows its journey in the Chauvet cave in France Although generally skeptical of a 3-D film as a format, 22 Herzog created the film to the International Film Festival 2010 Toronto 3-D and had its European premiere at the Berlinale 2011 in 2010, Herzog co-directed with Dimitry Vasuykov Happy People a year in the taiga which depicts the life of fur trappers of the Siberian part of the taiga and premiered at the Telluride film Festival 2010.
Herzog told many of his documentary films, and he lent his voice to a television entertainment program for the first time in 2010, in The Boondocks in his first episode of the third season, he Sá Black President, Huey Freeman In the episode, he played a fictionalized version of himself shooting a documentary about the cast of the series of characters and their actions during the 2008 election of Barack Obama.
Continuing the work of voice, Herzog played Walter Hotenhoffer formerly known as Augustus Gloop in the Simpsons episode Tale of the Scorpion which aired in March 2011 next year, he also appeared in episode 8 American Dad season called Ricky Spanish and lent his voice to a recurring character in the fourth season of the animated series Adult Swim Metalocalypse in 2015, he voiced a character for Rick and Morty it also appeared alongside Tom Cruise Adult Swim as the villain in the 2012 action film Jack Reacher.
Herzog has attracted attention in 2013 when he released a message style documentary public of 35 minutes one second to another demonstrating the danger of texting while driving and funded by AT T Verizon Sprint and T-Mobile as part of their It can wait the driver safety campaign The film, which documents four floors where texting and driving led to the tragedy or death, first received more than 1 7 million views on YouTube and was then distributed to over 40 000 23 secondary schools in July 2013, Herzog contributed to art installation titled Hearsay of the soul, for the Whitney Biennial, which was later acquired by exposure Standing by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles at the end of 2013, he also lent his voice to the English dub of Hayao Miyazaki's the wind picks up.
In 2011, Herzog participated with Ridley Scott to make a film based around the life of Gertrude Bell explorer 24 In 2012, it was confirmed that Herzog would begin production on his project long in development in March 2013 with Morocco Naomi Watts play Gertrude Bell with Robert Pattinson to play TE Lawrence and Jude Law to play Henry Cadogan 25 The film was completed in 2014 with another cast Nicole Kidman as Gertrude Bell, James Franco as Henry Cadogan, Damian Lewis as Charles Doughty- Wylie and Robert Pattinson as an archaeologist TE Lawrence 22 Queen of the desert had its world premiere at the International film Festival of Berlin in 2015.
In 2015, Herzog shot a movie, salt and fire Bolivia starring Veronica Ferres and Michael Shannon Gael García Bernal is described as a highly explosive drama inspired by a short story by Tom Bissell 26.
Herzog's films have received much critical acclaim and popularity achieved on the circuit of art house They also made the subject of controversy regarding their themes and messages, especially the circumstances surrounding their citation creating necessary a notable example is Fitzcarraldo in which the obsessiveness of the central character is mirrored by the director during the making of the film Burden of Dreams documentary filmed during the production of Fitzcarraldo explored Herzog's efforts to make the film in Difficult conditions.
His treatment of subjects has been characterized as Wagnerian in its scope, and Fitzcarraldo and his latest movie Invincible in 2001 are directly inspired by the opera or operatic themes He is proud of never using storyboards and often improvising a much of the script he explains this technique in the commentary track to Aguirre.
Herzog believes his writings in prose and poetry, like walking on ice, and the conquest of the useless, to have more lasting value than his films.
Herzog preferred to develop a team to work with, both actors and technicians he gathered a group that has appeared in many films.
Of Walking in Ice Free Association, New York, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9796121-0-7.
The original Fitzcarraldo History Professor fjord, January 1983 ISBN 978-0-940242-04-3.
Conquest unnecessary reflections of the Making of Fitzcarraldo Eroberung of Nutzlosen German 2004; English Ecco, 2009, ISBN 978-0061575532.
Werner Herzog Guide for the Perplexed, Conversations with Paul Cronin London Faber and Faber Ltd. 2014, ISBN 0-571-20708-1 extract 35.
Lena Herzog Pilgrims become the path itself Periplus Publishing Ltd. London, 2002, ISBN 1-902699-43-2.
Cobra Verde Jade Flammarion 2001, ISBN 2-08-203009-1.
Wo Greens Ameisen Träumen Hanser 1984, ISBN 3-446-14106-5.
Screenplays Aguirre, everyone for himself and God against all countries of silence and darkness translated by Alan Greenberg Martje Herzog; Tanam, New York, 1981, ISBN 0-934378-03-7.
Drehbücher II Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle Terre des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit Hanser 1977.
Drehbücher I Lebenszeichen Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen, Fata Morgana Hanser 1977.
Alan Greenberg Herbert Achternbusch Heart of Glass 1976.
Werner Herzog Guide for the Perplexed Conversations with Paul Cronin London Faber Faber, 2014 ISBN 978-0-571-25977-9.
Eric Ames, ed Werner Herzog Interviews Jackson University of Mississippi Press, 2014 ISBN 978-1-61703-969-0.
Eric Ames Documentary Fierce reality by Werner Herzog Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Emmanuel Carrère Werner Herzog Paris Ediling 1982 ISBN 2-85601-017-2.
Moritz Holfelder Werner Herzog Biography Die Munich LangenMüller, 2012 ISBN 978-3-7844-3303-5.
Brad Prager, ed A Companion to Werner Herzog Malden Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 ISBN 978-1-405-19440-2.
Brad Prager Cinema Werner Herzog Aesthetics and Ecstasy Truth New York Wallflower Press, 2007 ISBN 978-1-905674-18-3.
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