US EditionGlobetrotting German Director Herzog Honoured at Venice Festival
Francis Ford Coppola honored Werner Herzog with the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, highlighting Herzog’s influential films and upcoming documentary premiere.
- On Wednesday, Francis Ford Coppola presented Werner Herzog with Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, marking Coppola's first public appearance since a recent heart procedure.
- As festival organizers noted, Werner Herzog, German film director, pioneered New German Cinema with over 70 films, including `Aguirre, the Wrath of God` and `Fitzcarraldo`, and blurred documentary and fiction boundaries.
- Herzog began his speech by thanking Coppola and received a standing ovation, telling the Sala Grande audience, `I have always tried to strive for something that goes deeper beyond what you normally see in movie theatres, a deep form of poetry that is possible in cinema`.
- Herzog will premiere the documentary Ghost Elephants about a mysterious herd in the Angolan highlands out of competition and follow it with a masterclass on Thursday.
- Longtime friends, Francis Ford Coppola and Werner Herzog nearly collaborated on a film about the conquest of Mexico that never materialized; Coppola is also a past Golden Lion honoree.
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The Mostra opted for a light tone on Wednesday August 27th, far from the bustle of the world, during a ceremony that saw Werner Herzog rewarded with a Lion gold for his entire career.
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The main event on August 27 evening’s opening ceremony was Francis Ford Coppola awarding a Lifetime Achievement award to German director Werner Herzog (“Grizzly Man”, “Fitzcarraldo”) for his canon of more than 70 films
At the opening of the Venice Film Festival, German director Werner Herzog was honored with a Golden Lion for his life's work.
German director Werner Herzog is the recipient of the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. The artist also shot his latest film in Slovenia. He was delighted with Postojna Cave. "Postojna Cave is the most incredible cave in the world. It is a place of wonders and poetry," he wrote in the book of famous visitors after his visit.
The German director, moved to tears, was rewarded by his colleague Francis Ford Coppola: "I've never seen movies like his own"
The Venice Film Festival started with the awarding of the Golden Lion for Werner Herzog's life's work. Francis Ford Coppola praised the "great" filmmaker.
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