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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 Helmuth Von Gorth
for Doctor Helmuth Von Gorth in The Son of the Dragon Awakening (2008)
Suggested by nikobatman
1950, young researchers, who's not taken seriously by their colleagues, go to do research in a remote and wild corner of the Carpathians. However, in a very dangerous place under Soviet control and still recovering from the effects of WW2, their Japanese colleague decided to hire a small group of American war veterans, who had served in Italy, to ensure their security. Another group of researchers, Russians, also arrived here, led by a German researcher recovered at the end of the conflict, also looking for what would be a very powerful weapon that would allow the Soviet Union to show its superiority to the United States. However, in the terrifying catacombs of the old castle, they'll all awaken something who can't be controled. Thus, the Lord of the Night, the lord and creator of the Vampires, the Son of the Dragon : Dracula, will be involuntarily released from his tomb !
