Klaus Kinski

One of the most influential filmmakers and exciting German, and film in general, Werner Herzog has been making films for over 30 years and shows no sign of slowing.

The most famous recent films Herzog "Grizzly Man," a documentary about the eccentric bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell and his death in 2003, when a bear entered the camp and killed and ate him and his girlfriend in the park Katmai National and Reserve in Alaska. A few years later, he ordered another famous documentary, "Encounters at the End of the World" which examined the life at McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

Before Herzog was known as a documentary filmmaker, he was widely known for his films and difficult to work with German actor Klaus Kinski. Kinski and Herzog had a strange love, friendship tumeltous that often had the throat, repeatedly coming close to killing each other. However, Kinski brings out the best in Herzog, and vice versa, in their films together: "Aguirre, the Wrath of God," "Fitzcarraldo" and "Nosferatu The Vampyre."

Herzog's films are known for focusing on anti-heroes, people with impossible dreams or talents that are often located between the hammer and the anvil. Many of his stories are based on real events, like a conquistador Aguirre tried to descend the Amazon River or Fitzcarraldo who tried to build an opera house in the city of Iquitos and had to drag his boat with Train Horn steam to reach its goal.

More recently, Herzog has worked with many big names American actors, like Christian Bale and Steve Zahn in Rescue Dawn "and Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes and Val Kilmer in" Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans ".

Herzog is a great talent and one of the best directors in the world when he left, he will be a sad day.