Werner Herzog
Film director
1942 –
Who is Werner Herzog?
Werner Herzog Stipetić, known as Werner Herzog, is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor; and an 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."
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- Born
- Sep 5, 1942
Munich - Also known as
- Werner H. Stipetic
- Werner Herzog Stipetić
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Lena Herzog
(1999 - ) - Christine Maria Ebenberger
(1987/08/19 - 1994) - Martje Grohmann
(1967 - 1987) - Eva Mattes
- Lena Herzog
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Germans
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Lived in
- Munich
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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