Sunday, March 3, 2013

German Film Academy Awards Werner Herzog the Lifetime Achievement Award


 Werner Herzog Headshot - P 2011

COLOGNE, Germany – Acclaimed director Werner Herzog will receive a lifetime achievement award from the German Film Academy at this year’s German film awards, the Lolas.

Herzog established his name as a director in the 1970s and ’80s as part of the New German Cinema movement with ground-breaking features such as Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) and Fitzcarraldo (1982). More recently, it has been Herzog’s documentaries, including Grizzly Man (2005), the Oscar-nominated Encounters at the End of the World (2009) and On Death Row (2012), that have attracted the most attention.

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