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Werner Herzog

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Werner Herzog is a German film director, born in 1942, associated with the New German Cinema movement, known for films built around extreme locations and obsessive characters, including Aguirre, the Wrath of God in 1972 and Fitzcarraldo in 1982, both starring Klaus Kinski, and the documentary Grizzly Man in 2005. His body of work spans both fiction and documentary filmmaking across six decades, and he remains an active director and frequent on-screen narrator of his own films.

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    Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unusual talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature.
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    Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈhɛʁtsoːk]; né Stipetić; born 5 September 1942) is a German filmmaker, actor, opera director, author, and documentarian. Regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema, his films often feature ambitious
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