Herzog's camera gracefully glides along the spectacular landscape which is only the prelude to the catastrophe that follows.

Werner Herzog: Born in Sachrang, Germany in 1942, Werner Herzog is one of the most eccentric figures in the New German Cinema. He has been described as the romantic visionary of the movement who has a legendary need to confront danger in making his films. ‘Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates’. To earn money for Filmmaking, Herzog worked in factories, and as a parking lot attendant and in 1964 he won the Carl Maye Prize for the screenplay that became his first feature film: Signs of Life (1968).

Selected Filmography: Aguirre (1972) Every Man For Himself And God Against Them All (1975); Nosferatu the Vampire (1979); Fitzcarraldo (1982); Burden Of Dreams (1982); Cobra Verde (1987); Wodaabe: Shepherds Of The Sun (1988-89) Bells From The Deep (1993)

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