Acclaimed German director’s films to be shown in Manila

The Goethe-Institut Philippinen—Germany’s worldwide cultural institute—presents a cinematic retrospective exhibition of the work of acclaimed German director, Werner Herzog, Saturdays and Sundays, from May 6 to June 4, at the FDCP Cinematheque Manila. Over the course of 55 years, Herzog’s film career expanded the possibilities of cinema as an art form and transformed a wide range of genres.

Considered as one of the greatest figures of the New German Cinema, Werner Herzog’s body of work consists of films and documentaries that capture men and women at psychological extremes. Herzog and his films have received critical success through the numerous awards he has won and has been nominated for. Herzog’s first feature film, Signs Of Life won him his first Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1968. Other notable awards include Best Director for Fitzcarraldo at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, and the Grand Prix at the same festival for The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser in 1975.