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Werner Herzog to Be Honored at Venice Film Festival With Golden Lion for Career Achievement
The Venice Film Festival will honor Werner Herzog with its Golden Lion for career achievement.
The Venice Film Festival will honor iconoclastic German director Werner Herzog — whose body of work comprises “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” “Fitzcarraldo” and Nosferatu the Vampyre” — with its 2025 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Barbera added: “He has never ceased from testing the limits of the film language, belying the traditional distinction between documentary and fiction, and at the same time proposing a radical investigation of the topics of communication, the relationship between images and music, and of the infinite beauty of nature and its inevitable corruption.” Barbera said that Herzog is the “last heir of the great tradition of German romanticism” with a career that is “both fascinating and hazardous because it involves total commitment and putting oneself on the line to the point of physical risk, where catastrophe constantly lurks.”
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