Werner Herzog

Globetrotting German director Herzog honored at Venice festival

Werner Herzog was handed a special winged Golden Lion statue by ‘The Godfather’ director and friend Francis Ford Coppola who praised the German’s ‘limitless creativity’
A long and contentious collaboration with German screen icon Klaus Kinski resulted in epic films such as 1972’s ‘Aguirre, the Wrath of God’ and 1982’s ‘Fitzcarraldo’

By AFP · 27 August 2025