Acclaimed director Werner Herzog will be here at the University of South Florida next month. Here’s the announcement:

An Afternoon with Werner Herzog
Nov. 19, 3pm
ISA 1051

The world-renowned German director Werner Herzog will show a new film project and discuss his work with
USF students, faculty, staff, and Tampa Bay cineastes.

Werner Herzog made his first film in 1961. Since then he has produced, written, and directed more than fifty
feature and documentary films and directed a dozen operas. He has been nominated and won numerous
international awards for his films, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA Award, four Cannes
Palm d’Or Awards, two Independent Spirit Awards, a Sundance Film Festival Award, four Venice Film Festival Awards,
an Emmy, and two Berlin International Film Festival Awards.

He became a celebrated director in the US as a member of the film movement New German Cinema in the 1970s
and 80s with his films Aguirre, Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, and Fitzcarraldo. His recent films include
Grizzly Man, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call-New Orleans, Encounters at the End of the World, Rescue Dawn,
and Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

His latest film Into the Abyss, a documentary about two death row inmates in Texas, was screened recently
at the Telluride and Toronto International Film Festivals and will soon receive a wide release in the US.

For more information, please contact Margit Grieb (grieber@usf.edu)

This event is sponsored by the German Embassy, the Humanities Institute,
the College of Arts & Sciences, the Departments of Communication,
English, History, Humanities & Cultural Studies, Philosophy, and World Languages.