Werner Herzog
8 titles · european arthouse
Obsessives pitched against an indifferent nature. Herzog sends dreamers into jungle and wilderness — a conquistador chasing gold, a man dragging a steamship over a mountain to build an opera house — and films the landscape as something vast and unmoved by their will. The outsider who cannot fit the world (Kaspar Hauser, Stroszek) is the same figure at rest.
Signature
- Grandiose obsessives on doomed quests (Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo).
- Nature filmed as sublime and wholly indifferent.
- Innocents and outsiders who cannot fit society (Kaspar Hauser, Stroszek).
- Productions as extreme as the films — shot on the actual river and mountain.
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