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Werner Herzog - film director

24/08/2015 GMT

Werner Herzog, Film Director

BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Werner Herzog, Film Director

After five decades making movies, is Werner Herzog's love of film as intense as ever?

The film-maker Werner Herzog is responsible for some of the most beautiful images captured on film but after fifty years making movies is his love of film as intense as ever?

Draw up a list of the greatest living film-makers and Werner Herzog would surely occupy a prominent place. He is responsible for some of the most wildly beautiful images captured on film. If you have seen Fitzcarraldo you won’t have forgotten the steamship being hauled over a mountain. He is seen as the film industry's obsessive genius, the director who once threatened to shoot his lead actor to prevent him quitting. After five decades making movies, is Werner Herzog's love of film as intense as ever?

(Photo: Werner Herzog with an award during the Lola - German Film Awards in 2013. Credit: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

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