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German actor, director, screenwriter.
Born September 5, 1942 in Munich, Germany.
He spent his childhood in the remote mountain village of Zahrang in Bavaria, far from city life. At the age of 12, together with his mother, a native of Yugoslavia, he again moved to Munich, where he became interested in cinema. One of the classics of modern cinema, the author of more than 40 films, fiction and documentaries, a fearless director who constantly risked his life on the set of each next film, a director who created his own unique authentic style and problematics, daring and sometimes shocking, who revealed the talent of the actor Klaus Kinski to the world.
With Klaus Kinski, Herzog directed the films Aguirre, God's Wrath (1972), Nosferatu - Phantom of the Night (1978), Wojzeck (1979), Fitzkaraldo (1982) and Cobra Verde (1988). Fitzcarraldo became the director's most ambitious project - it took titanic efforts and several years of work to bring it to an end. In the final version, the main role was played again by Kinski, and not by Jason Robards (with Mick Jagger as assistant), as previously planned. For Fitzcarraldo, Herzog was awarded the Cannes Film Festival award as the best director, although he was much criticized, especially in his native Germany, for his irrational desire for naturalism and disregard for human lives (shooting in the Amazon jungle was not without sacrifice). An ambivalent attitude towards the work of Herzog, who is obsessed with the idea of ??completing the film regardless of the price,
In 2001, after settling in Los Angeles, Herzog returned to feature films. His films starred Hollywood stars of the first magnitude - Nicolas Cage ("Bad Lieutenant"), Christian Bale ("Saving Dawn"), Tim Roth ("Invincible").
To the heights of documentary filmmaking Herzog can be attributed documentary projects of the American period - "Grizzly Man" (2005) and "Meetings at the End of the World" (2007, Oscar nomination).
In 2010 he chaired the jury at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.
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