Werner Herzog – Radical Dreamer (English subs)
Those who want to get to know the man, the director and his surroundings will enjoy Thomas von Steinacker's portrait of Werner Herzog, "the last German Romantic".
Werner Herzog is a phenomenon, a director of unforgettable classics about small people with grand desires, a filmmaker who always emphasises the power of nature over man, and a cult figure. He made his first (short) film in 1962 – with a camera stolen from the Munich Film Academy – , his latest production is already in the pipeline. Werner Herzog (b. 1942) continues filming until his last breath. For Herzog, filming is a plunge into the unknown, a process in which you become aware that behind the ordinariness of things lies a deeper truth that can be chillingly beautiful, terrifying or moving. No wonder the filmmaker has sometimes been described as “the last defender of German Romanticism”.
Herzog is always a source of fascinating statements and this is no different. With his distinctive accent, which Wenders says he invented himself, he again orates lustily.Het Parool