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An Afternoon With German Filmmaker Werner Herzog

An Afternoon With German filmmaker Werner Herzog is open to the public and will be held in USF’s new Interdisciplinary Sciences Building (ISA), Room 1051.

 

Herzog will discuss new works in progress. More than 60 feature and documentary films and a dozen operas and books bear Herzog’s unique creative imprint – as producer, writer and/or director. His career highlights include nominations and wins of the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, four Cannes Palm d’Or Awards, two Independent Spirit Awards, a Sundance Film Festival Award, four Venice Film Festival Awards, an Emmy and two Berlin International Film Festival Awards.

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Herzog first became well-known for his work during the New German Cinema movement of the 1970’s and 80s with such films as Aguirre, Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre and Fitzcarraldo

His more current films include Grizzly Man, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans, Encounters at the End of the World and Rescue Dawn. His two latest productions are documentaries. Cave of Forgotten Dreams in 3D came out this year.  Into the Abyss, a documentary about two death row inmates in Texas, was recently screened at the Telluride and Toronto International Film Festivals and is set to be released throughout the United States. 

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Herzog has also appeared before the camera and is in the cast of the upcoming film One Shot with Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike and Robert Duvall.  

For more information please contact Margit Grieb at or Stephan K. Schindler via email. 

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