The iconic director of 'Fitzcarraldo, 'Grizzly Man,' and 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' will be honored at the 82nd Venice ...

Werner Herzog had never even seen a movie until he was 11. Now 82, the visionary director is working constantly, still making movies no one else would or could ever dream of.

Renowned German director Werner Herzog will receive the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Film Festival.

The Venice Film Festival will fete German filmmaker Werner Herzog with its honorary Golden Lion at its forthcoming 81st ...

The Venice Film Festival will honor iconoclastic German director Werner Herzog — whose body of work comprises “Aguirre, the ...

Werner Herzog, the veteran German director of "Fitzcarraldo" and "Grizzly Man", will be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime ...

A teenage Werner Herzog needed just one thing after he decided filmmaking was his destiny: a camera. He found one at a film school in Munich and walked off with it — something he calls "more ...

Herzog was born in Munich, Germany, in 1942, the mid-point of World War II. His family left Munich for the Bavarian Alps when Herzog was just two weeks old, after a narrow escape from bombing.

“A physical filmmaker and indefatigable hiker, Werner Herzog constantly crosses the planet Earth pursuing hitherto unseen images, testing our ability to look, challenging us to grasp what lies ...