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Werner Herzog (German: [ˈvɛɐ̯nɐ ˈhɛɐ̯tsoːk]; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with unique talents in obscure fields, or individuals in conflict with nature. He is known for his unique filmmaking process, such as disregarding storyboards, emphasizing improvisation, and placing the cast and crew into similar situations as characters in his films. Herzog started work on his first film Herakles in 1961, when he was nineteen. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than sixty feature films and documentaries, such as Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), Heart of Glass (1976), Stroszek (1977), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Cobra Verde (1987), Lessons of Darkness (1992), Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997), My Best Fiend (1999), Invincible (2000), Grizzly Man (2005), Encounters at the End of the World (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), and Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010). He has published more than a dozen books of prose, and directed as many operas. French filmmaker François Truffaut once called Herzog "the most important film director alive." American film critic Roger Ebert said that Herzog "has never created a single film that is compromised, shameful, made for pragmatic reasons, or uninteresting. Even his failures are spectacular." He was named one of the world's 100 most influential people by Time magazine in 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Werner Herzog, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Werner Herzog
Doctor Wolfgang Kauffmann
for Doctor Wolfgang Kauffmann in The Monster Squad
Suggested by nikobatman
Two years have passed since the Monster Squad secretly saved the world from a demented project of survivors of the Third Reich, who wanted to exploit the resources of a real lost world to avenge their defeat. However, peace is only a very short-lived thing in this job. The world is threatened again, by another Nazi survivor on the run, but this time who don't seem to be the biggest threat in sight. The Monster Squad, made up of a few new members, begins their mission this time in Saint Petersburg, in order to extradite the mythical Russian necromancer Rasputin, who seems to have collaborated with their enemies. They will discover realize that survivors of the Third Reich are posing as a research team gone to the depths of Antarctica, in order to drill for new matter. However, once there, the monsters will realize that the Nazis have, for once, come across something much more dangerous than them, having found a passage towards the center of the Earth, which turns out to be hollow and where a vast lost empire lies. Thinking at first that the real threat comes from the mysterious reptilians, the worst is yet to come. The Nazis have dug too deep and with too much greed, awakening mythical giants, who want to return to the surface to conquer it ! No man could stop such mythological beings, but perhaps monsters would have their chance...
