Werner Herzog accepts the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
Iconic German director Werner Herzog will be honored with the 2025 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival, as he continues his prolific career with new films and projects spanning fiction, documentary, and animation.
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The Venice Film Festival is hosting the iconoclastic German director Werner Herzog, whose work includes “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” “Fitzcarraldo” and Nosferatu the Vampire,” — 2025 Golden Left Award for Lifetime reach, Variety has reported. “It is a great honor for me to accept the honorable Golden Lion for my lifetime achievements at the Venice Biennale,” the Duke said in a statement. “I have always hoped to be a brave movie soldier, and I feel like I have a medal for my work: a good one.”
Werner Herzog is making an upcoming film
“However,” said the Duke, “I’m not looking to retire.” “I work as before. Just a few years ago, I successfully completed a documentary film in Africa, “Primary Elephants,” and now I am filming my upcoming feature-length film, “Bucking Fastard,” in Ireland. An animated film based on his novel “The Light of the World” and I will voice the story in the upcoming animated film by Bong Joon Ho. “I haven’t finished it yet,” he added.
The Venetian artist Alberto Barbera called the director “a physical director and a tireless mandrevnik,” saying that he “is constantly moving around the planet Earth, searching for the most incredible images, trying to marvel at our reality, disturbing us to understand those that lie behind the visible reality, and the following between the film images in the spontaneous search of the powerful, ecstatic truth and new sensory experiences. Vin has established himself as one of the leading innovators of the new German cinema with such films as “Signs of Life”, “Nosferatu the Vampire”, “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” and “Fitzcarraldo”, “The Rotten Lieutenant”, “Port of Call: New Orleans” and “Grizzly People”.
German romanticism
Barbera adding: “We have never tried to try between films, crossing the traditional distinction between documentary and feature films, and at the same time introducing a radical exploration of those communications, connections between images and music, as well as the infinite beauty of nature and inevitable creation.”
Barbera said that the Duke is “a remaining descendant of the great tradition of German Romanticism” with a career that is “at once faltering and careless, leaving him conveying renewed devotion to justice and dedication to himself physical risk, a catastrophe is constantly on the horizon.” The upcoming 82nd issue of Venice will be published from 27 September to 6 September.
