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Francis Ford Coppola honored Werner Herzog with the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, highlighting Herzog’s influential films and upcoming documentary premiere.
- On Wednesday, Francis Ford Coppola presented Werner Herzog with Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, marking Coppola's first public appearance since a recent heart procedure.
- As festival organizers noted, Werner Herzog, German film director, pioneered New German Cinema with over 70 films, including `Aguirre, the Wrath of God` and `Fitzcarraldo`, and blurred documentary and fiction boundaries.
- Herzog began his speech by thanking Coppola and received a standing ovation, telling the Sala Grande audience, `I have always tried to strive for something that goes deeper beyond what you normally see in movie theatres, a deep form of poetry that is possible in cinema`.
- Herzog will premiere the documentary Ghost Elephants about a mysterious herd in the Angolan highlands out of competition and follow it with a masterclass on Thursday.
- Longtime friends, Francis Ford Coppola and Werner Herzog nearly collaborated on a film about the conquest of Mexico that never materialized; Coppola is also a past Golden Lion honoree.
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The German director received, at the age of 82, a golden lion of honour in Venice for all of his work. ...
·Brussels, Belgium
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The legendary American director reappeared in public after a heart operation to honor the German filmmaker, recognized for his rich film career
·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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German director Werner Herzog received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at yesterday's opening of the International Film Festival in Venice.
·Belgrade, Serbia
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For more than half a century, he directed nearly 70 fictions and documentaries, among them "L'enigma de Kaspar Hauser" in 1975, with which he won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
With the presentation of "La Grazia" by Paolo Sorrentino and the Golden Lion for career at Werner Herzog
·Italy
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