The iconic responsible director of films such as “Fitzcarraldo”, “Grizzly Man” and “Aguirre, the wrath of God” will be honored at the 82nd Venice Festival in August.
The German director Werner Herzog will be awarded the Golden Lion to the trajectory in the Venice Film Festival This year.
The director of Fitzcarraldo and Grizzly Man He will be honored at 82. Venice International Film Festival, which will be held from August 27 to September 6.
“I feel deeply honored to receive the Honorary Golden Lion to the Trajectory of the Venice Biennale. I have always tried to be a good film soldier, and this feels like a medal at my work,” said Herzog. “However, I have not retired. I work as always.”
Werner Herzog’s extensive trajectory
The director, whose long list of credits as director includes Aguirre, the wrath of God, signs of life, Bad Lieutenant, Port of Call: New Orleans, Nosferatu El Vampiro and Cave of Forgotten Dreamsand as an actor appears in Jack Reacher and The Mandalorian Disney+recently completed a new documentary, Ghost Elephants. He is currently filming a feature film, Fastard Buckinghe is working on an animated adaptation of his novel The Twilight World and did a voice action in the next animated film of Bong Joon Ho, The Valley.
The director of the Venice Film Festival, Alberto Barbera, praised Herzog as one of the main innovators of the new German cinema. “Herzog has never stopped challenging the limits of cinematographic language, denying the traditional distinction between documentary and fiction”Barbera said. “Bright narrator of unusual stories, Herzog is also the last heir of the great tradition of German romanticism, a visionary humanist and a tireless explorer.”
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